Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 and Yorick Blumenfeld’s 2099: A Eutopia: An Inquiry into the (E) utopian Society

Abstract

The present dissertation explores the (e) utopian schemes of Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward from 1887 to 2000 and Yorick Blumenfeld’s 2099: A Eutopia. It aims at shedding light on the socialist blueprints of the two (e) utopist authors, mainly through applying two rudiment terms of Capitalism and Socialism that depict the salient alteration from an omnivorous capitalist doctrine to socialist utopian thoughts. The analysis of the two (e) utopian plans relies on the Marxist perspective that has a fundamental role in the full comprehension of their societal structures. In questioning the (e) utopian principles of the two novels understudy,...