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2018 | 66 | 11: Anglica. Zeszyt specjalny | 57-69

Article title

Laboratories of Circumstances and Misshapen Transhumans: Failures of Perfectibility in Two Nineteenth-Century American Dystopias

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Laboratoria okoliczności i niefortunni transludzie. Porażki doskonałości w dwóch dziewiętnastowiecznych amerykańskich dystopiach

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The article is an analysis of two early American nineteen-century dystopias, The Man Machine, or the Pupil of Circumstances (1826) by James Kirke Paulding and A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Year of our Lord 19 (1835) by Jerome Bonaparte Holgate, focusing on the presentation of early versions of transhumans in the works. While Paulding’s novella focuses on criticism of Robert Owen’s New Lanark, a textile factory and a socialist experiment, and Holgate’s satire addresses the question of miscegenation, they both foreground the concept of the new human as a product of the respective reformers’ misguided ideologies.
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Artykuł przedstawia analizę dwóch amerykańskich dystopii z początku dziewiętnastego wieku, Człowiek-Maszyna, albo Uczeń Okoliczności (1826) James’a Kirke Paulding’a, oraz Miasto Amalgamacji w Roku Pańskim 19 –– (1835) Jerome’a Bonaparte Holgate’a, koncentrując się na reprezentacji wczesnych wersji transczłowieka. Podczas gdy nowela Pauldinga stanowi krytykę New Lanark Roberta Owen’a, fabryki tekstyliów będącej jednocześnie socjalistycznym eksperymentem, a satyra Holgate’a odnosi się krytycznie do kwestii krzyżowania ras, obydwa utwory wysuwają na plan pierwszy problem nowego człowieka jako produktu ideologicznego.

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  • Wydział Humanistyczny, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie

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