New Amazonia

New Amazonia
AuthorElizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
("Mrs. George Corbett")
LanguageEnglish
GenreUtopian fiction Speculative fiction
PublisherTower Publishing Co.
Publication date
1889
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover)

New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future is a feminist utopian novel, written by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and first published in 1889.[1][2] It was one element in the wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Matthew Beaumont, "'A Little Political World of My Own': the New Woman, the New Life, and New Amazonia," Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2007), pp. 215-32.
  2. ^ Darby Lewes, Dream Visionaries: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870–1920, Tuscaloosa, AL, University of Alabama Press, 1995; p. 142.
  3. ^ Jean Pfaelzer, The Utopian Novel in America 1886–1896: The Politics of Form, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.
  4. ^ Kenneth Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, 1888–1900, Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1976.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference beaumont was invoked but never defined (see the help page).