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	==Plot==		==Plot==
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	: In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful [[suffragette]] movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly-evolved "Amazonians" who turn Ireland into a [[Utopia\|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 in literature\|~~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.		: In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful [[suffragette]] movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly-evolved "Amazonians" who turn Ireland into a [[Utopia\|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.

	: The Victorian woman and man are given an account of intervening history by one of the Amazonians. In the early twentieth century, war between Britain and Ireland decimated the Irish population; the British repopulated the island with their own surplus women. (After the war, which also involved France on the side of Ireland, British women outnumbered men by three to one.) Women came to dominate all aspects of society on the island.		: The Victorian woman and man are given an account of intervening history by one of the Amazonians. In the early twentieth century, war between Britain and Ireland decimated the Irish population; the British repopulated the island with their own surplus women. (After the war, which also involved France on the side of Ireland, British women outnumbered men by three to one.) Women came to dominate all aspects of society on the island.
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	: The narrator reacts very positively to what she sees and learns; but her male companion reacts precisely oppositely and adjusts badly — to the point where the Amazonians judge him to be insane. The narrator nonetheless tries to protect her male counterpart, and in the process is accidentally transported back to the grimmer realities of Victorian England.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Amazonia&oldid=308114776 "New Amazonia"], Wikipedia (copied 2010/12/07.</ref>		: The narrator reacts very positively to what she sees and learns; but her male companion reacts precisely oppositely and adjusts badly — to the point where the Amazonians judge him to be insane. The narrator nonetheless tries to protect her male counterpart, and in the process is accidentally transported back to the grimmer realities of Victorian England.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Amazonia&oldid=308114776 "New Amazonia"], Wikipedia (copied 2010/12/07.</ref>

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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==
	* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amazonia wikipedia]		* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amazonia wikipedia]

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Lquilter: summary

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	'''The New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future''' is an 1889 novel by [[Elizabeth Corbett]].		'''The New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future''' is an 1889 novel by [[Elizabeth Corbett]].

			==Plot==
			Wikipedia:
			: In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful [[suffragette]] movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly-evolved "Amazonians" who turn Ireland into a [[Utopia\|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 in literature\|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.

			: The Victorian woman and man are given an account of intervening history by one of the Amazonians. In the early twentieth century, war between Britain and Ireland decimated the Irish population; the British repopulated the island with their own surplus women. (After the war, which also involved France on the side of Ireland, British women outnumbered men by three to one.) Women came to dominate all aspects of society on the island.

			: The history lesson is followed by a tour of the new society, which embodies a version of state [[socialism]]. Men are allowed to live on the island, but cannot hold political office: "masculine government has always held openings for the free admission of corruption, injustice, immorality, and narrow-minded, self-glorifying bigotry." The Amazonians are [[Vegetarianism\|vegetarians]]; they employ [[euthanasia]], eliminating malformed children — and bastards. They maintain their superiority by practicing "nerve-rejuvenation," in which the life energy of dogs is transferred to humans. The result is that the Amazonians grow to be seven feet tall, and live for hundreds of years but look no older than forty. The narrator tries the procedure herself: "The sensation I experienced was little more than a pin-prick in intensity, but...I felt ten years younger and stronger, and was proportionately elated at my good fortune." (The procedure, though, is fatal to the dogs.)

			: The narrator reacts very positively to what she sees and learns; but her male companion reacts precisely oppositely and adjusts badly — to the point where the Amazonians judge him to be insane. The narrator nonetheless tries to protect her male counterpart, and in the process is accidentally transported back to the grimmer realities of Victorian England.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Amazonia&oldid=308114776 "New Amazonia"], Wikipedia (copied 2010/12/07.</ref>


			==Further reading==
			* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amazonia wikipedia]

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	[[category:1889 publications]]		[[category:1889 publications]]
	[[category:Novels]]		[[category:Novels]]

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'''The New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future''' is an 1889 novel by [[Elizabeth Corbett]].

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[[category:1889 publications]]
[[category:Novels]]