In the essay that follows, Hansot places Bellamy's fiction in the larger context of utopian thought from Plato to H. G. Wells, and argues that Bellamy imagines a fundamentally conservative ideal.

In the following essay, Strauss claims that Bellamy's feminist leanings were limited by his nationalist and bourgeois presuppositions.

In the following essay, Fellman argues that Bellamy's desire for social and economic renewal led him to a vision of authoritarian unity.

In the essay that follows, Hammond studies Bellamy's redemptive vision of an “internalized utopia” that would free both men and women from the restrictions of social convention.

In the following essay, Leach discusses the role of nineteenth-century feminists in the egalitarian Nationalist movement inspired by Bellamy's writings.

In the following essay, Cantor observes Edward Bellamy's “insular, parochial, Christian, uniquely nineteenth-century American” socialism.

In the following essay, McClay discusses the significance of the Civil War as an impetus to Bellamy's authoritarian vision of a “great community.”

In the following essay, Dewey examines Bellamy's evocation of “the terrible gulf between what is possible and what is actual” with regard to human freedom and equality.