![]() ![]() The Last Utopians studies the work and lives of these four writers, introduced by a short history of utopian ideology and movements. And there was Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892) explored the oppressive domestic life of women and who later depicted a female society free from war and conflict in Herland (1915). ![]() There was Edward Carpenter, who set out his view of sexual revolution and ‘spiritual democracy’ in the long, Whitman-esque poem ‘Towards Democracy’ (1905). Soon there was William Morris’ News From Nowhere (1890), in which a London gentleman awakes after a similarly lengthy slumber to find a bucolic city in which money has been abolished. The success of Looking Backward created a trend for literature inspired by utopian visions of the world. Following decades of widening inequality, the novel sold hundreds of thousands of copies in both Britain and the US, striking a chord with readers. In the novel, a man in Boston falls asleep in the late 1880s and wakes up 113 years later, in an America of Universal Basic Income, where all property has been nationalised. In January 1888, an unremarkable novelist called Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward 2000–1887. ![]()
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