New Amazonia The Tale Of Feminist Utopia

In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.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. 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 New Amazonia.The narrator reacts very positively to what she sees and learns; but her male companion reacts precisely oppositely and adjusts badly. Read on to know more! Excerpt: "The next event I can chronicle was opening my eyes on a scene at once so beautiful and strange that I started to my feet in amaze. This was not my study, and I beheld nothing of the magazine which was the last thing I remembered seeing before I went to sleep. … I was recalled to the necessity of behaving more decorously by hearing someone near me exclaim in mystified accents, "By Jove! But isn't this extraordinary? I say, do you live here, or have you been taking hasheesh too?"…

In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.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. 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 New Amazonia.The narrator reacts very positively to what she sees and learns; but her male companion reacts precisely oppositely and adjusts badly. Read on to know more! Excerpt: "The next event I can chronicle was opening my eyes on a scene at once so beautiful and strange that I started to my feet in amaze. This was not my study, and I beheld nothing of the magazine which was the last thing I remembered seeing before I went to sleep. ... I was recalled to the necessity of behaving more decorously by hearing someone near me exclaim in mystified accents, "By Jove! But isn't this extraordinary? I say, do you live here, or have you been taking hasheesh too?"...

"New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future" by George Mrs. Corbett. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release, as the third volume in its Heirloom Books series, of a new edition of New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future, a feminist utopian novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett originally published in 1889, which includes an introduction by scholar Alexis Lothian. Corrupt, Degraded, Rotten to the core is British Civilisation, and yet we find women who ought to know better, actually pretending that they are perfectly contented with the existing order of things, declares the narrator of New Amazonia. Raging against an antifeminist statement signed by ladies opposing the cause of womens suffrage, a writer falls asleep in 1889 and wakens, in company with a hashish-smoking masher, in a future world run by women. New Amazonia tells the story of how this future world came to be and reveals its shiny, futuristic marvels as well as its government-administered horrors. When Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett sat down in the late 1880s to imagine a world 500 years hence, she can little have imagined that her words would be pored over in another century, on another continent, in a community gathered around the kinds of imaginative engagement with gender that she was pioneering. L. Timmel Duchamp has described feminist science fiction as a "great conversation; Corbetts speculations about New Amazonia are part of that conversations prehistory, a fictional contribution to political debates with which the writer was intensively engaged. The book you are holding is a piece of utopian fiction, but it is just as much a feminist rantentertaining, educational, and more than a little over the top.from the Introduction by Alexis Lothian

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Feminist Fiction. - Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain - New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Mrs. George CorbettHerland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It was first published in monthly installments as a serial in 1915 in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916. The story is told from the perspective of Vandyck "Van" Jennings, a sociology student who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of uncharted land rumored to be home to a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not entirely believe the rumors because they are unable to think of a way how human reproduction could occur without males. Sultana's Dream is a 1905 feminist utopian story written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a Muslim feminist, writer and social reformer from Bengal. It depicts a feminist utopia (called Ladyland) in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of the traditional practice of purdah. The women are aided by science fiction-esque "electrical" technology which enables laborless farming and flying cars; the women scientists have discovered how to trap solar power and control the weather. This results in "a sort of gender-based Planet of the Apes where the roles are reversed and the men are locked away in a technologically advanced future." 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. 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 New Amazonia. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics

Mrs. George Corbett wrote "New Amazonia," a woman utopian novel this is hard to understand. The story takes vicinity in a different time and location, on an island called New Amazonia that is only inhabited via girls who've created a society loose from male control. In New Amazonia, women do nicely in an international where they run matters and deal with themselves without men. This creates a society where gender roles are completely flipped. The tale is informed through the eyes of a male traveler who visits this society ruled with the aid of ladies and studies their social norms, which make him suppose deeply about how gender roles work in his own global. Mrs. George Corbett's paintings tackle controversial thoughts approximately gender equality, strength dynamics, and what takes place whilst humans are absolutely shut out of society. The creator questions and rethinks the famous social norms of her time thru this ideal imaginative and prescient, developing a thrilling replicate picture of gender roles and social systems. "New Amazonia" is a groundbreaking work of feminist literature that has led to conversations about gender roles, equality, and what might show up in a world without men.

"A good deal of cleverness; a supposed future state of Ireland - good-humored satire." -Scotsman "Always original, Mrs. Corbett contrives to attract the reader's attention at once, and it is never allowed to flag until the end of the very clever story." -Newcastle Daily Chronicle "A dream, but a bright and clever one. Mrs. Corbett writes with so much power and sparkle, that she provides an excellent shilling's worth of entertainment." -Glasgow Herald "One of the most remarkable and noteworthy literary productions of the day." -The Two Worlds "Amusing. Mrs. Corbett has a quick eye for the inconsistencies of law and social customs and a clever method of showing them up to others." -Literary World "Some of the details in the working out of the main idea are highly ingenious. There is much that is curious in the book." -Public Opinion "Decidedly bright and clever." -Lady's Pictorial "A work of a superior description to the ordinary novel; extremely interesting." - Engineer's Gazette "Daring, as well as original." -Leeds Mercury "Humorous; will repay perusal by both sexes." -Newcastle Weekly Chronicle "Smartly written." -Edinburgh Evening News "This bright volume....The story is cleverly written, brimming with ideas and breezy in style." -Religio-Philosophical Journal, Chicago "Some of the most vigorous and picturesque English which I have met with of late years. The book stamps Mrs. Corbett as one of our most original thinkers." -Society "I offer my best thanks for the courteous presentation of your work; and I shall cherish the hope that the large and free discussion of social relations, in which you bear a part, may prove beneficial in a world which, undoubtedly, presents ample room for improvement." W. E. Gladstone

This literary-historical account of late-nineteenth century utopianism offers a fascinating rereading of the fin de siècle in terms of the political futures that were produced in England during a period of cultural upheaval, and marks an original contribution to the Marxist critique of utopian ideology.