SOURCE: McHugh, Christine. “Midwestern Populist Leadership and Edward Bellamy: 'Looking Backward' into the Future.” American Studies 19, no. 2 (fall 1978): 57-74.
In the following essay, McHugh demonstrates the connection between Looking Backward and the Populist party and avers that Edward Bellamy's novel contained the ideal world the agrarians sought while the Populist party was the means to fight for this new world.
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