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''Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole'' is a feminist utopian adventure novel, published in 1899 by its author, Anna Adolph.〔Anna Adolph, ''Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole'', Hanfield, CA, privately printed, 1899.〕 The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.〔Kenneth Roemer, ''The Obsolete Necessity, 1888–1900'', Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1976.〕〔Jean Pfaelzer, ''The Utopian Novel in America, 1886–1896: The Politics of Form'', Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.〕〔Matthew Beaumont, ''Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England, 1870–1900'', Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005.〕 ==Genre== ''Arqtiq'' participates in, bridges, and hybridizes several related literary genres and subgenres of its time. Some writers applied feminist viewpoints to utopian fiction; Elizabeth Corbett's ''New Amazonia'' is one pertinent example, among others. A number of late-nineteenth-century novels looked forward to the invention of the airplane, as Adolph's book does; these works can be classed, at least generally or peripherally, as science fiction. ''Arqtiq'' combines this "airplane fiction" with utopian feminism, as does Jones and Merchant's ''Unveiling a Parallel''. ''Arqtiq'' also partakes in the exotic subgenres of hollow Earth or subterranean fiction, and lost-world or lost-race fiction.〔Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, ''The Dictionary of Imaginary Places'', expanded edition, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.〕 Like Mary Lane's ''Mizora'', Adolph's ''Arqtiq'' gives these forms of adventure fiction a feminist twist. Stories of travel to the North Pole or South Pole recurred throughout the nineteenth century. Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'' is the most famous of these; there were various others. Finally, Adolph couches her story as a dream, linking it to a whole host of fantasies that employ the dreaming motif. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arqtiq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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