Man's World

TitleMan's World
Year for Search1926
AuthorsHaldane, Charlotte [Franken](1894-1969)
Date Published1926
PublisherChatto and Windus
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsFemale 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. 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.

Additional Publishers

US ed. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.

Holding Institutions

L, VUW

Author Note

Female author (1894-1969).

Full Text

1926 Haldane, Charlotte [Franken] (1894-1969). Man’s World. London: Chatto and Windus. U.S. ed. New York: George H. Doran, 1927. 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. 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. Female author.