Revolt of the Bees
| Title | Revolt of the Bees |
| Year for Search | 1826 |
| Authors | Morgan, John Minter(1782-1854) |
| Date Published | 1826 |
| Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Dystopia followed by a eutopia. Opens with a colony of bees choosing capitalism and degenerating into starvation and war. A eutopia is then presented based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), specifically his ideas on the formation of character. Most of the text is taken up with discussion of the ideas. See also J.C. Prince, "The Revolt of the Bees. Verses Suggested by Reading the Above Work; Presented to Me By My Valued Friend Quintus Hortensius." The New Moral World [6].58 (November 30, 1839): 927-28. See also 1834 and 1845 Morgan. For Owen's eutopias, see 1813, 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen. |
| Additional Publishers | 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Rpt. London: Ptd. for Hurst, Chance and Co. and Effingham Wilson, 1830. 3rd ed. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839; rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 309-438 |
| Info Notes | See also J.C. Prince, “The Revolt of the Bees. Verses Suggested by Reading the Above Work; Presented to Me By My Valued Friend Quintus Hortensius.” The New Moral World (London) [6].58 (November 30, 1839): 927-28. |
| Holding Institutions | L, LLL, PSt |
| Author Note | (1782-1854) |
| Full Text | 1826 Morgan, John Minter (1782-1854). Revolt of the Bees. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. 2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Rpt. London: Ptd. for Hurst, Chance and Co. and Effingham Wilson, 1830. 3rd ed. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839; rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 309-438. L, LLL, PSt Dystopia followed by a eutopia. Opens with a colony of bees choosing capitalism and degenerating into starvation and war. A eutopia is then presented based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), specifically his ideas on the formation of character. Most of the text is taken up with discussion of the ideas. See also J.C. Prince, “The Revolt of the Bees. Verses Suggested by Reading the Above Work; Presented to Me By My Valued Friend Quintus Hortensius.” The New Moral World [6].58 (November 30, 1839): 927-28. For Owen's eutopias, see 1813, 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen. See also 1834 and 1845 Morgan. |
