2894 (novel)
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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.
1894 in literature
The year 1894 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Robert Frost sells his first poem, "My Butterfly", to The New York Independent for fifteen dollars.*Hermann Hesse begins his apprenticeship at a factory in Calw....
utopian novel
Utopian and dystopian fiction
The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia...
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
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
and gender roles.
2894 is one of the rarest works in the English language.