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Arqtiq
''Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole'' is a feminist utopian adventure novel, published in 1899 by its author, Anna Adolph. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Genre ''Arqtiq'' participates in, bridges, and hybridizes several related literary genres and subgenres of its time. Some writers applied feminist viewpoints to utopian fiction; Elizabeth Corbett's ''New Amazonia'' is one pertinent example, among others. A number of late-nineteenth-century novels looked forward to the invention of the airplane, as Adolph's book does; these works can be classed, at least generally or peripherally, as science fiction. ''Arqtiq'' combines this "airplane fiction" with utopian feminism, as does Jones and Merchant's ''Unveiling a Parallel''. ''Arqtiq'' also partakes in the exotic subgenres of hollow Earth or subterranean fiction, and lost-world or lost-race fiction. Like Mary ... [...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] |
1899 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1899. Events *January 21 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt, having taken over management of the Paris theatre she renames the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, opens it in the title rôle of Victorien Sardou's ''La Tosca''. On May 20 she premières an adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'', with herself in the title rôle. *March 20 – W. H. Davies, "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump on a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. *April – Karl Kraus establishes the radical periodical ''Die Fackel'' (The Torch) in Vienna. *April–June – Rainer Maria Rilke, still an art student at the time, travels to Moscow to meet Leo Tolstoy. *May–December – The only work of fiction by the British politician Winston Churchill, '' Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania'', is serialised in ''Macmillan's Magazine''. * May 8 – The Irish Literary Theatre, founded by W. B. Yeats, Augusta, Lady Greg ... [...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] |
The Milltillionaire
''The Milltillionaire, or Age of Bardization'' is a work of utopian fiction written by Albert Waldo Howard, and published under the pseudonym "M. Auberré Hovorré." The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Date The first edition of the book, published in Boston, was undated. It is generally assigned to c. 1895; a second, slightly revised edition was also undated, but likely appeared c. 1898. Genre Writers of speculative fiction in the later 1800s (as at other times) varied in the approaches they took toward the nearer and farther future. Some novels took a short-term look ahead in time, from 25 years, as in Peck's '' The World a Department Store'', to a century or more (Brooks's ''Earth Revisited'', or Bellamy's ''Looking Backward''). Others took a longer look ahead, of even thousands of years (as with Macnie's ''The Diothas''). Howard similarly took a long though indefinite pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Romance
''For the silent film see The Great Romance (film)'' ''The Great Romance'' is a science fiction and Utopian novel, first published in New Zealand in 1881. It had a significant influence on Edward Bellamy's 1888 ''Looking Backward'', the most popular Utopian novel of the late nineteenth century. The book ''The Great Romance'' is a short novel, originally published in two parts. The texts appeared anonymously: authorship was attributed to The Inhabitant, "a pseudonym common at the time for guidebooks in the United Kingdom and the United States...."Alessio, p. 305. The work is one aspect of the major wave of Utopian (and dystopian) literature that characterized the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the English-speaking world, that literature is best known in its American and British expressions; but ''The Great Romance'' illustrates how that wave of utopian fiction reached into the remoter regions of the Anglophone domain. An 1882 article in the Christchurch newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Amazonia
''New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future'' is a feminist utopian novel, written by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and first published in 1889. It was one element in the wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Context Corbett wrote the novel in response to Mrs Humphry Ward's "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage", an open letter published in ''The Nineteenth Century'' and signed by over a hundred other women against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Plot In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved "Amazonians" who turn Ireland into a utopian society. The book's female narrator wakes up in the year 2472, much like Julian West awakens in the year 2000 in Edward Bellamy's ''Looking Backward'' ( 1888). Corbett's heroine, however, is accompanied by a man of her own time, who has similarly awakened from a hashish dream to find himself in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Fiction
Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of Romance (prose fiction)#Definition, romance fiction. History In the Introduction to the ''Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction'', Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre as follows: D'Ammassa argues that adventure stories make the element of danger the focus; hence he argues that Charles Dickens's novel ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is an adventure novel because the protagonists are in constant danger of being imprisoned or killed, whereas Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' is not because "Pip's encounter with the convict is an adventure, but that scene is only a device to advance the main plot, which is not truly an adventure." Adventure has been a common theme (literature), theme since the earliest days of written fiction. Indeed, the standard plot of Romance (heroic literature), Medieval romances was a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Science Fiction Novels
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought against Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
