2894 (novel)

2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream) is an 1894 utopian novel written by Walter Browne published in New York by G. W. Dillingham. It is one entrant in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.[1][2]

2894
AuthorWalter Browne
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreUtopian fiction Speculative fiction
PublisherG. W. Dillingham
Publication date
1894
Media typePrint

The book deals with a reversal of the traditional gender roles, and describes a society of "dominant women and submissive men."[3] It an early example of speculative fiction works that considered the topic of gender roles.[4]

According to Lyman Tower Sargent, as of mid-1970s, 2894 was not available in any library, two copies were known to exist in private collections.[5]

References
  1. Roemer, Kenneth M. (1976). The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. Kent State University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-87338-178-9.
  2. Allyn B. Forbes, "The Literary Quest for Utopia, 1880–1900," Social Forces, Vol. 6 No. 2 (December 1927), pp. 179-89.
  3. Sargent, Lyman Tower (November 1976). "Themes in Utopian Fiction in English Before Wells". Science Fiction Studies. 3 (3): 275–82, see p. 276. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  4. Sargent, pp. 278-9.
  5. Sargent, p. 281 n. 15.

2894 Full-Text online via St. Louis Mercantile Library

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