"The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia"

Title"The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia"
Year for Search1796
AuthorsSmith, Elihu Hubbard(1771-98)
Secondary TitleEarly American Literature
Volume / Edition35.2
Pagination309-29
Date Published[1796-97]/2001
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Detailed eutopia focused on health and public education to age thirty, which is coeducational to age twenty-two but with women excluded from university education. Combination of reason and Christianity.

Additional Publishers

Ms. in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. 

Info Notes

See Catherine Kaplan, “Elihu Hubbard Smith’s ‘The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia’.” Early American Literature 35.3 (2001): 294-308.

Author Note

The author (1771-98) was a doctor.

Full Text

[1796-97] Smith, Elihu Hubbard (1771-98). “The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia.” Ms. in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. First published in Early American Literature 35.3 (2000): 309-29.

Detailed eutopia focused on health and public education to age thirty, which is coeducational to age twenty-two but with women excluded from university education. Much of the eutopia is on the structure of the government and the profession of medicine. Women cannot vote. Combination of reason and Christianity. The author was a doctor. See Catherine Kaplan, “Elihu Hubbard Smith’s ‘The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia’.” Early American Literature 35.3 (2001): 294-308.