Theodore Savage (eBook)

Cicely Hamilton (Autor)

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2023
276 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-37361-6 (ISBN)

Infos

From one of the earliest feminist science fiction writers, a novel that envisions the fall of civilization-and the plight of the modern woman in a post-apocalyptic wilderness.When war breaks out in Europe, British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named protagonist must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain. When we first meet Theodore Savage, he is a complacent civil servant, primarily concerned with romancing his girlfriend. During a brief war in which both sides use population displacement as a terrible strategic weapon, Savage must battle his fellow countrymen. He shacks up with an ignorant young woman in a forest hut-a kind of inverse Garden of Eden, where no one is happy. Eventually, he sets off in search of other survivors . . . only to discover a primitive society where science and technology have come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror. A pioneering feminist, Hamilton offers a warning about the degraded state of modern women, who-being "e;unhandy, unresourceful, superficial"e;-would suffer a particularly sad fate in a postapocalyptic social order.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2023
• Einführung: Susan R. Grayzel
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-262-37361-0 / 0262373610
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-37361-6 / 9780262373616