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Opening address of the president of section F (Economic science and statistics) of the British association for the advancement of science, at the thirty-second meeting, at Cambridge. Poverty among the elderly in late Victorian England.
The two books of Francis Bacon: Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and human. Journal of New Zealand Literature, 22, 73–94.īacon, F. A conservative utopia? Anthony Trollope’s ‘The fixed period’. In exploring how Trollope’s depiction of the future illuminates the seamy side of utopian productivism, I therefore suggest that he debunks the myth of youth, efficiency, and progress, which governed Victorian Britain.Īlessio, D. That is, although Trollope locates the mandatory euthanasia system in the future, his portrayal of it as a pivotal means of national regeneration serves to problematize the late Victorian reality, in which people felt a need to increase the size of the young and efficient generation and decrease that of the old and inefficient generation in order to prevent collective degeneration. It is necessary to note that Trollope’s interpretation of the future without decline-without the elderly-is satiric, for he indeed speaks about the present society, obsessed with the ideology of progress. In reading how Period portrays aging as a sign not only of personal deterioration but also of social inefficiency, I situate the text in the late nineteenth-century context, in which euthanasia was viewed as a countermeasure against large-scale degeneration. In this article, I examine Anthony Trollope’s futuristic fiction The Fixed Period ( 1882) to discuss how the author criticizes Victorian Britain’s general pursuit of national efficiency by depicting a seemingly utopian nation where euthanasia of old and less productive individuals is used as an expedient means of implementing utopian values.
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