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Eleanor Courtemanche deposited Satire and the “Inevitability Effect”: The Structure of Utopian Fiction from “Looking Backward” to “Portlandia” on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
In the late nineteenth century the literary genre of utopia enjoyed a boom inspired
by the success of Edward Bellamy’s 1888 Looking Backward, 2000–1887. These stories,
including novels by William Morris and H. G. Wells, often featured a cicerone who explained how
disordered nineteenth-century societies were transformed into superior future wor…[Read more]