Man's World
| Title | Man's World |
| Year for Search | 1926 |
| Authors | Haldane, Charlotte [Franken](1894-1969) |
| Date Published | 1926 |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Female author |
| Annotation | Satire. The novel presents a future devoted to the improvement of the white race through eugenics. On the whole, the society is presented positively, but there is a strong satiric thread throughout. Her review of Huxley’s Brave New World, “Dr. Huxley and Mr. Arnold” was published in Nature 129 (April 23, 1932): 597-598. In her Women’s Utopias in British and American Utopian Fiction Nan Bowman Albinski calls this an ambiguous eutopia and simply a eutopia (79-80). I initially called it a eugenic dystopia, but I have concluded that dystopia is too strong a label. In her Introduction, Levine notes that the book has been classified in a number of different ways. In the same year the book was published female author married J. B. S. Haldane, a well-known geneticist, an advocate of eugenics, and a Communist, but he did not join the Communist Party of Great Britain until 1942. She joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937 but became disillusioned during in visit to the Soviet Union in 1941, and she and her husband separated in 1942 and divorced in 1945. |
| Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. New York: George H. Doran, 1927. U.S. ed. rpt. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024, with an Introduction by Philippe Levine (xv-xxv) which notes the racism (xxi) and anti-Semitism (xx) in the novel. |
| Info Notes | Her review of Huxley’s Brave New World, “Dr. Huxley and Mr. Arnold” was published in Nature 129 (April 23, 1932): 597-598. Her review of Huxley’s Brave New World, “Dr. Huxley and Mr. Arnold” was published in Nature 129 (April 23, 1932): 597-598. In her Women’s Utopias in British and American Utopian Fiction Nan Bowman Albinski calls this an ambiguous eutopia and simply a eutopia (79-80). I initially called it a eugenic dystopia, but I have concluded that dystopia is too strong a label. In her Introduction, Levine notes that the book has been classified in a number of different ways. |
| Holding Institutions | L, VUW |
| Author Note | In the same year the book was published the female author (1894-1969) married J. B. S. Haldane, a well-known geneticist, an advocate of eugenics, and a Communist, but he did not join the Communist Party of Great Britain until 1942. She joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937 but became disillusioned during in visit to the Soviet Union in 1941, and she and her husband separated in 1942 and divorced in 1945. |
| Full Text | 1926 Haldane, Charlotte [Franken] (1894-1969). Man’s World. London: Chatto and Windus. U.S. ed. New York: George H. Doran, 1927. U.S. ed. rpt. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024, with an Introduction by Philippe Levine (xv-xxv) which notes the racism (xxi) and anti-Semitism (xx) in the novel. L, VUW Satire. The novel presents a future devoted to the improvement of the white race through eugenics. On the whole, the society is presented positively, but there is a strong satiric thread throughout. Her review of Huxley’s Brave New World, “Dr. Huxley and Mr. Arnold” was published in Nature 129 (April 23, 1932): 597-598. In her Women’s Utopias in British and American Utopian Fiction Nan Bowman Albinski calls this an ambiguous eutopia and simply a eutopia (79-80). I initially called it a eugenic dystopia, but I have concluded that dystopia is too strong a label. In her Introduction, Levine notes that the book has been classified in a number of different ways. In the same year the book was published the female author married J. B. S. Haldane, a well-known geneticist, an advocate of eugenics, and a Communist, but he did not join the Communist Party of Great Britain until 1942. She joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937 but became disillusioned during in visit to the Soviet Union in 1941, and she and her husband separated in 1942 and divorced in 1945. |
