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Beschreibung
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future is a vigorous late-Victorian feminist utopia in which a contemporary woman is transported into a transformed future society governed by rational, educated, politically empowered women. Combining speculative fiction, social satire, and reformist polemic, the novel imagines redesigned institutions of marriage, labour, health, education, and citizenship. Its brisk, argumentative style places it within the utopian debates stimulated by Edward Bellamy and the "New Woman" movement, while sharply contesting Victorian assumptions about female dependence and domestic confinement. Corbett was a novelist, journalist, and committed advocate of women's rights, writing at a moment when suffrage, property law, employment, and sexual double standards were intensely contested. Her professional life in print culture gave her both rhetorical confidence and access to public controversy; her fiction repeatedly reflects the frustrations of intelligent women excluded from political power. New Amazonia channels these experiences into a speculative blueprint for reform. This book is recommended to readers interested in feminist literary history, Victorian utopianism, and the origins of modern gender politics. It remains provocative, historically revealing, and intellectually energetic.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future is a vigorous late-Victorian feminist utopia in which a contemporary woman is transported into a transformed future society governed by rational, educated, politically empowered women. Combining speculative fiction, social satire, and reformist polemic, the novel imagines redesigned institutions of marriage, labour, health, education, and citizenship. Its brisk, argumentative style places it within the utopian debates stimulated by Edward Bellamy and the "New Woman" movement, while sharply contesting Victorian assumptions about female dependence and domestic confinement. Corbett was a novelist, journalist, and committed advocate of women's rights, writing at a moment when suffrage, property law, employment, and sexual double standards were intensely contested. Her professional life in print culture gave her both rhetorical confidence and access to public controversy; her fiction repeatedly reflects the frustrations of intelligent women excluded from political power. New Amazonia channels these experiences into a speculative blueprint for reform. This book is recommended to readers interested in feminist literary history, Victorian utopianism, and the origins of modern gender politics. It remains provocative, historically revealing, and intellectually energetic.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028332693
ISBN-10: 8028332692
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Corbett, Elizabeth Burgoyne
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 5 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,131 kg
Artikel-ID: 128160561