Additional Resources for Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Further Reading

Bowman, Sylvia E., Edward Bellamy, Twayne Publishers, 1986.

Considered one of the best of the Bellamy biographies, this analytical study covers his life, his philosophies on reform, and the impact of his works.

Halewood, W. H., "Catching Up with Edward Bellamy," in University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3, Spring 1994, pp. 451-61.

Halewood examines the elements of Looking Backward that have caused it to become a relatively unknown work today despite its enormous original impact.

Patai, Daphne, ed., Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy, University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

This collection of eight essays from critics who were contemporaries of Bellamy to modern critics provides an insightful variety of views about Bellamy and his works.

Trahair, Richard, "Looking Backward: 2000-1887, 2nd ed.," in Utopian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 1997, pp. 118-20.

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