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Afterword analyzes the intersection of nostalgia and disdain for the Victorian era through Bellamy's insights.
This afterword "looks backward" at the articles in this cluster through the lens of Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward . Juxtaposing Bellamy's optimistic speculations on the future with the retrospective analysis of the nineteenth century enabled from our current position, we explore the complicated mixture of affects, from nostalgia to disdain, that characterize twentieth-century responses to the Victorian past.
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