BRAY, John Francis

BRAY, John Francis
(1809-1897)
   US writer, mostly of (sometimes radical) economic tracts. He was in the UK 1822-42 and there produced, among other works, A Voyage from Utopia (written 1841; 1957 UK), which anticipated William Dean HOWELLS's technique of presenting the views of a visitor from the UTOPIA. In JFB's book the visitor's responses to the labour conditions and abiding hypocrisies characteristic of the UK and USA are republican, satirical (SATIRE) and outraged. JFB rightly thought the work unpublishable in his time.
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