Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs
| Title | Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs |
| Year for Search | 1886 |
| Authors | Carne-Ross,, Joseph ed. [written by](1844-1911) |
| Date Published | [1886] |
| Publisher | John and Robert Maxwell |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author, Scottish author |
| Annotation | Flawed utopia. Rational, egalitarian eutopia that has gone too far and rejected emotion. Stress on technology, health, and cleanliness. Hospitalization for drunkenness and illiteracy; police are also physicians. Intellectual women, who are all narrow-hipped, rejected child-bearing; men show an atavistic tendency to prefer unintellectual women, imported from outside, who will bear children. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 3-55. Editor's notes, 1, 391. |
| Holding Institutions | CtY, L, O, PSt |
| Author Note | The author (1844-1911) was born in Portugal, took his medical degree in Scotland, and was later a physician in Manchester, England. |
| Full Text | [1886] Carne-Ross, Joseph, M.D., ed. [written by] (1844-1911). Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs. London: John and Robert Maxwell. Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 3-55. Editor’s notes, 1, 391. CtY, L, O, PSt Flawed utopia. Rational, egalitarian eutopia that has gone too far and rejected emotion. Stress on technology, health, and cleanliness. Hospitalization for drunkenness and illiteracy; police are also physicians. Intellectual women, who are all narrow-hipped, rejected child-bearing; men show an atavistic tendency to prefer unintellectual women, imported from outside, who will bear children. The author was born in Portugal, took his medical degree in Scotland, and was later a physician in Manchester, England. |
