Industrialism and Pastoral Ideal in Edward Bellamy's Novels

• 作者: 蒋小丽
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（下）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（5）
• 所属期刊栏目: 中外文学文化研究
• 页码范围: 202-203
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: I106
• 语种: 中文

摘要

Edward Bellamy's three novels, Six to One, Looking Backward, and Equality, are the expression of his reconciliation be-tween industrialism and pastoral ideal. Six to One represents the writer's early pastoral ideal with its traditional romantic plot of re-tiring form city life and living on a reclusive island for a while. In Looking Backward, however, Bellamy embraces machine and technology and even considers industrialism to be the panacea for social reform. In Equality, the sequel to LookingBackward, Bel-lamy tends to reconcile and balance between industrialism and pastoral ideal with his advocacy of decentralized suburbs rather than centralized metropolis in the prequel.