Theodore Savage

Theodore Savage
Cicely Hamilton, Susan R Grayzel
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h203 x 133mm - 248pg
7 Feb 2023 US
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9780262545228
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From one of the earliest feminist science fiction writers, a novel that envisions the fall of civilization-and the plight of the modern woman in a post-apocalyptic wilderness. When war breaks out in Europe, British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named protagonist must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain. When we first meet Savage, he is a complacent civil servant, primarily concerned with romancing his girlfriend. During the brief war, in which both sides use population displacement as a terrible strategic weapon, Savage must battle his fellow countrymen. He shacks up with an ignorant young woman in a forest hut-a kind of inverse Garden of Eden, where no one is happy. Eventually, he sets off in search of other survivors . . . only to discover a primitive society where science and technology have come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror. A pioneering feminist, Hamilton offers a warning about the degraded state of modern women, who-being "unhandy, unresourceful, superficial"-would suffer a particularly sad fate in a postapocalyptic social order.

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Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) was an Anglo-Irish actress, author, and feminist campaigner best known for her 1909 treatise Marriage as a Trade. Her prewar plays include Diana of Dobson' s (1908) and How the Vote Was Won (1909). After working in the north of France during World War I and witnessing how its violence affected civilians, she was inspired to write Theodore Savage (1922), a proto-sf novel presciently foregrounding modern warfare' s destructive power. Susan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at Utah State University, where she researches and teaches about modern European history, women' s and gender history, the history of the world wars, and war and culture. Her publications in these areas include Women' s Identities at War (1999) and At Home and Under Fire (2012). Her latest book is The Age of the Gas Mask- How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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ISBN-13: 9780262545228
Published: 7 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: MIT Press
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Pages: 248

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