![]() Bellamy`s novel gained so much attention after it was published, Gronlund stopped the distribution of his work and endorsed Bellamy`s vision as the means to a new socialist society. Although his fictional story in Looking Backward is unique, Bellamy owes much of the philosophy behind his vision to an earlier social reformer and author, Laurence Gronlund, who published his treatise The Cooperative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Modern Socialism in 1884. ![]() Bellamy called this philosophy Nationalism. In this utopian world, loyalty to the solidarity of the state holds the society together. Looking Backward, certainly considered by many as within the genre of utopian fiction, anticipates a future America (the year 2000) of nationalized industry, equal distribution of wealth and the destruction of class divisions-this vision counters the problems Bellamy saw with his contemporary society. ![]() The novel became so popular that by 1900 only Uncle Tom`s Cabin had sold more copies. Although he published four novels and several essays in his lifetime, he is remembered most for his 1888 work Looking Backward, 2000-1887 and it was this novel which influenced the formation of the Nationalist political movement and several accompanying utopian living experiments during the 1890`s. Son and grandson of Baptist ministers, Bellamy studied law and worked briefly in the newspaper industry in New York and in Springfield, Massachusetts. A biography of Edward Bellamy (1850-1897)Įdward Bellamy was born Main Chicoppee Falls, Massachusetts. ![]()
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