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The Utopian Tradition. During the 1880s and 1890s utopian literature enjoyed an American renaissance. Imaginary worlds (some of them appealing, some horrific) cropped up in novels such as Edward Bellamy ’ s Looking Backward (1888), Ignatius Donnelly ’ s Caesar ’ s Column (1890), Henry Olerich ’ s A Cityless and Country-less World (1893), King Gillette ’ s The Human Drift (1894), and William Dean Howells ’ s A Traveler from Altruria (1894). In appropriating the utopian form American

authors tapped a well-established tradition. The word utopia — a Greek term meaning either “ no place ” or “ ...

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