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A Crystal Age
''A Crystal Age'' is a utopian novel/Dystopia written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone" and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later. The book was first issued anonymously in 1887. The second edition of 1906 identified the author by name, and included a preface by Hudson. The third edition of 1916 added a foreword by Clifford Smith. Genre Hudson's second novel was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the 19th century and the start of the 20th, in Great Britain and the United States. Pastoral Whether they wrote fiction or non-fiction, most utopian writers of Hudson's generation placed a strong emphasis on technological progress as a way to a better future; examples range from Edward Bellamy's ''Looking Backward'' (1888) to King Gillette's '' The Human Drift'' (1894) to Alexander Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Hudson
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) – known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson – was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Life Hudson was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine (), United States settlers of English and Irish origin. He was born and lived his first years in a small estancia called "25 Ombues" in what is now Ingeniero Allan, Florencio Varela, Argentina. In 1846 the family established a '' pulpería'' further south, in the surroundings of Chascomús, not far from the lake of the same name. In this natural environment, Hudson spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, while publishing his ornithological work in ''Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society'' initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He had a special love for Patagonia. Hudson emigrated to England in 1874, taking up residence at St Luke's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Traveler From Altruria
''A Traveler from Altruria'' is a Utopian novel by William Dean Howells. It was first published in installments in '' The Cosmopolitan'' between November 1892 and October 1893, and eventually in book form by Harper & Brothers in 1894. The novel is a critique of unfettered capitalism and its consequences, and of the Gilded Age. Introduction Set during the early 1890s in a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, the book is narrated by a Mr Twelvemough, a popular author of light fiction who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of Altruria called Mr Homos. Homos has come all the way to the United States to experience first-hand everyday life in the country which prides itself to represent democracy and equality, to see for himself how the principle that "all men are created equal" is being practiced. However, due to Altruria's secluded existence very little is known about that state, so Twelvemough and his ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sub-Coelum
''Sub-Coelum: A Sky-Built Human World'' is an 1893 utopian fiction written by Addison Peale Russell. The book is one volume in the large body of utopian, dystopian, and speculative literature that characterized the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Genre Scholar of the genre Jean Pfaelzer has described ''Sub-Coelum'' as a "conservative utopia," a book written in reaction to the multiple radical implications of the utopian fiction of Edward Bellamy and similar writers. While some skeptics of utopianism responded with dystopian satires and parodies, others, like Russell, answered with speculative fictions of their own that defended more conservative values. (Pfaelzer places John Macnie's ''The Diothas'' and John Jacob Astor IV's ''A Journey in Other Worlds'' in the same category.) ''Sub-Coelum'' has been called "a protest against the materialistic and socialistic tendencies of the times." Form ''Sub-Coelum'' has been termed a novel, for want of a better classificati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison Peale Russell
Addison Peale Russell (September 8, 1826 – July 24, 1912) was an American author of the later nineteenth century. He is remembered mainly for his ''Sub-Coelum'' — "his best book...a Utopian protest against materialistic socialism." Russell was born in Ohio; his formal education ended with grammar school. At the age of sixteen he took a job as a printer for a newspaper; by nineteen he had worked his way up to editor and publisher of the Hillsboro, Ohio ''News''. He pursued a journalism career until he switched to politics and public service. He was made clerk of the Ohio Senate in 1850; he later represented Clinton County, Ohio in the Ohio House of Representatives in the 52nd General Assembly (1856–57) as a Republican, and was Ohio Secretary of State (1858–62). He was appointed Financial Agent for Ohio during the American Civil War, stationed in New York City. Smith 1898 : 76 He retired from public office in 1868 to pursue literature. He wrote seven books: * ''Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2894 (novel)
''2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream)'' is an 1894 utopian novel written by Walter Browne. It is one entrant in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. The book deals with a reversal of the traditional gender roles, and describes a society of "dominant women and submissive men." It is one of a group of speculative fiction works in its generation that took a position, pro or con, on feminism and gender roles. ''2894'' is one of the rarest works in the English language.Sargent, p. 281 n. 15. References External links 2894 Full-Text onlinevia St. Louis Mercantile Library The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a membership library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. Since 1998 the library has been housed at the U ... Utopian novels 1894 American novels 1894 science fiction novels F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unveiling A Parallel
''Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance'' is a Feminism, feminist science fiction and Utopian and dystopian fiction, utopian novel published in 1893 in literature, 1893. The first edition of the book attributed authorship to "Two Women of the West." They were Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Robinson Merchant, writers who lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Genre The novel is one of a large number of works of speculative fiction and utopian and dystopian fiction that characterized the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Feminist issues and approaches were significant in this wave of speculative literature. While women writers typically advocated feminist causes and values (as in Mary Lane's ''Mizora'' and Elizabeth Corbett's ''New Amazonia''), there were also exceptions: conservative and traditionally-oriented women who used speculative fiction to argue against feminism (as in Anna Bowman Dodd's ''The Republic of the Future''). Story Jones and Merchant differed from some other fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizora
''Mizora'' is a feminist science fiction utopian novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane, first published in 1880–81, when it was serialized in the ''Cincinnati Commercial'' newspaper. It appeared in book form in 1890. ''Mizora'' is "the first portrait of an all-female, self-sufficient society," and "the first feminist technological Utopia." The book's full title is ''Mizora: A Prophecy: A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of Princess Vera Zarovitch: Being a True and Faithful Account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a Careful Description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners, and Government.'' Publication history and influences ''Mizora'' was part of the wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that was published in the later decades of the nineteenth century. The novel is "the second known feminist utopian novel written by a woman," afte''Man's Rights''(1870) by Annie Denton Cridge. The concept of an all-female society dates back at least to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Revisited
''Earth Revisited'' is an 1893 utopian novel by Byron Alden Brooks. It is one entrant in the large body of utopian and speculative fiction that characterized the later 19th and early 20th centuries. Genre Brooks sends his protagonist from the late 19th century into the future to experience a vastly improved world. His novel is one of a stream of such books that appeared in the late 19th century. Edward Bellamy's ''Looking Backward'' (1888) was the most famous, popular, and influential of these; and ''Earth Revisited'' has been dismissively called "One of the stepchildren" of Bellamy's book. Yet Brooks's novel can be usefully compared to an earlier work in the genre, John Macnie's ''The Diothas'' (1883). Both books share some particular ideas (like communal food preparation for private homes); and the concept of reincarnation is fundamental to both, which is not typical of the utopian literature of the era as a whole. Like many other utopian novels, ''Earth Revisited'' also verge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diothas
''The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead'' is a 1883 utopian novel written by John Macnie and published using the pseudonym "Ismar Thiusen". ''The Diothas'' has been called "perhaps the second most important American nineteenth-century ideal society"Everett F. Bleiler with Richard Bleiler, ''Science-Fiction: The Early Years'', Kent, OH, Kent University Press, 1990; p. 735. after Edward Bellamy's ''Looking Backward'' ( 1888). Synopsis The novel begins with a scene in which the first-person narrator undergoes an episode of "mesmerism," or hypnosis, and wakes up in the far future; he has suddenly passed "from the nineteenth to the ninety-sixth century...." In the company of a friend and guide named Utis Estai, the narrator begins to learn the nature of this future world. He is introduced to the massive city of "Nuiorc," the future development of New York City; and he travels with his guide to Utis's home in the suburbs. He learns from Utis and others about the structure and institutions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rima
Rima, also known as Rima the Jungle Girl, is the fictional heroine of W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel '' Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest''. In it, Rima, a primitive girl of the shrinking rain forest of South America, meets Abel, a political fugitive. A film adaptation of ''Green Mansions'' was made in 1959 starring Audrey Hepburn. In 1974, the character was adapted into the comic book ''Rima the Jungle Girl'', published by DC Comics. Though ''Rima the Jungle Girl'' ceased publication in 1975, the comic book version of Rima appeared in several episodes of Hanna-Barbera's popular Saturday morning cartoon series, '' The All-New Super Friends Hour'', between 1977 and 1980. Novel Like her literary cousins Tarzan and Mowgli, Rima sprang from an Edwardian adventure novel; in her case, '' Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest'', by W. H. Hudson, published in 1904. Hudson was an Argentine-British naturalist who wrote many classic books about the ecology of South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Mansions
''Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest'' (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest-dwelling girl named Rima. The principal characters are Abel, Rima, Nuflo, Cla-Cla and Kua-kó. Plot summary Prologue: An unnamed narrator tells how he befriended an old "Hispano-American" gentleman who never spoke of his past. His interest piqued, the narrator finally elicits the story. Venezuela, c. 1875. Abel, a young man of wealth, fails at a revolution and flees Caracas into the uncharted forests of Guayana. Surviving fever, failing at journal-keeping and gold hunting, he settles in an Indian village to waste away his life: playing guitar for old Cla-Cla, hunting badly with Kua-kó, telling stories to the children. After some exploring, Abel discovers an enchanting forest where he hears a strange bird-like singing. His Indian friends avoid the forest because of its evi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegetarians
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism may be adopted for various reasons. Many people object to eating meat out of respect for sentient animal life. Such ethical motivations have been codified under various religious beliefs as well as animal rights advocacy. Other motivations for vegetarianism are health-related, political, environmental, cultural, aesthetic, economic, taste-related, or relate to other personal preferences. There are many variations of the vegetarian diet: an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs. As the strictest of vegetarian diets, a vegan diet excludes all animal products, and can be accompanied by absten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
