...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Looking Backward
- 30 statements
- 4 feature instances
- 12 referencing feature instances
| Looking Backward | type |
TVTItem | |
| Looking Backward | label |
Looking Backward | |
| Looking Backward | page |
LookingBackward | |
| Looking Backward | comment |
Written by Edward Bellamy in 1888, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 was one of the first real Utopia novels in America. The author's brother Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance. He also had the same political views.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The novel is about Julian West, a Fish out of Temporal Water, who falls asleep in the year 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000, having slept for 113 years, three months and 11 days (a palindrome, 113311). When he awakes, he finds his country has undergone a bloodless socialist revolution. He proceeds to get lectured on how everything works for a majority of the book by the condescending Dr. Leete, who apparently doesn't do anything else. These lectures comprise entire chapters and discuss things like education, jobs, shopping and such in the year 2000, and how obviously better this utopia is than backward 1887.Oh, and there's a cheap love story, as Leete's daughter is named Edith, as was Julian's former fiancée. Instant romance, just add water.Whether it is actually a novel is debatable, as the elements that typically make up a story are underrepresented (aside from pure chapters of exposition). With no real conflict, Looking Backward actually comes off more as a socialist treatise with plot tacked on in order to make it sell more copies.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Available online at Project Gutenberg. A sequel, Equality was published in 1897, fleshing out Bellamy's socialist utopia further with more chapter-length lectures on various subjects. Also available online. | |
| Looking Backward | fetched |
2021-12-18T03:55:38Z | |
| Looking Backward | parsed |
2021-12-18T03:55:38Z | |
| Looking Backward | processingComment |
Dropped link to BombThrowingAnarchist: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
| Looking Backward | processingUnknown |
BombThrowingAnarchist | |
| Looking Backward | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Looking Backward / int_4eaa9b84 | type |
Author Tract | |
| Looking Backward / int_4eaa9b84 | comment |
Author Tract: The entire book is essentially Bellamy's explanation of what he felt society should be like, with a minimal plot set around it. | |
| Looking Backward / int_4eaa9b84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Looking Backward / int_4eaa9b84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Looking Backward / int_4eaa9b84 | |
| Looking Backward / int_bb40e7e0 | type |
Failed Future Forecast | |
| Looking Backward / int_bb40e7e0 | comment |
Failed Future Forecast:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
| Looking Backward / int_bb40e7e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Looking Backward / int_bb40e7e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Looking Backward / int_bb40e7e0 | |
| Looking Backward / int_ea85d6ea | type |
All Just a Dream | |
| Looking Backward / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: Subverted by the ending. West thinks this is what happened when he returns to 1887, but it turns out the return itself, and not the rest of the novel, was a dream. | |
| Looking Backward / int_ea85d6ea | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Looking Backward / int_ea85d6ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Looking Backward / int_ea85d6ea | |
| Looking Backward / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Looking Backward / int_name | comment |
||
| Looking Backward / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Looking Backward / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Looking Backward / int_name | |
| Looking Backward / int_name | itemName |
Looking Backward |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Bomb-Throwing Anarchists / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Dewey Defeats Truman / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Failed Future Forecast / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Mary Suetopia / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
No Full Name Given / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Rip Van Winkle / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Token Minority / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Token Romance / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Tube Travel / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
We Will Spend Credits in the Future / int_d432a439 | |
| Looking Backward | hasFeature |
Zeerust / int_d432a439 |
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.