[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dystopia"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Fantastic work, James. The poem "Utopia: Or, Apollo's Golden Days" was
published in Dublin in 1747. The original spelling for dystopia was
DUSTOPIA. The spelling was revised to dystopia when the poem was
reprinted in The Gentleman's Magazine.

Year: 1747 MDCCXLVII
Title: Utopia: Or, Apollo's Golden Days
Author: Lewis Henry Younge (GB author)
Publication: Printed for George Faulkner, Dublin, Ireland

https://books.google.com/books?id=DCRcAAAAQAAJ&q=Dustopia#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt - double check for typos]
So venomous, that some had rather
Have, in their stead, the toad, or adder.
Unhappy isle! Scarce known to Fame;
DUSTOPIA was its slighted name.
[End excerpt]

The webpage below refers to this topic and indicates that a previous
researcher uncovered the early appearance of dustopia/dystopia and
published a note in the Notes and Queries of March 2010 on page 86 to
88.

Webpage title: Dystopia: An Earlier Eighteenth-Century Use.” Notes and
Queries 57.1 (March 2010): 8

https://openpublishing.psu.edu/utopia/content/utopia-or-apollos-golden-days

Garson

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 4:36 PM James Eric Lawson <jel at nventure.com> wrote:
>
> 1748, verse in an epistle datelined March 2, Dublin, _The gentleman's
> magazine_, Vol. 18, 400/1 (the § is glossed below the column as "an
> unhappy country"):
>
> Unhappy isle! scarce known to fame;
> DYSTOPIA § was its slighted name.
> ...
> To mortals, STANHOPE he appears,
> Come to dry up *Dystopia*'s tears.
>
> Op. cit. 401/2 (where ॥ is glossed as "The *Romanists*"):
>
> Reflect--in *Saturn*'s days and mine,
> When rebel *Titans* ॥ dar'd combine;
> And with repeated, impious arms,
> Shook heaven's throne [with] loud alarms:
> *Dystopia* own'd that shaking throne,
> And made our royal cause her own.
>
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076879335&view=1up&seq=446&q1=dystopia
>
>
> Mention should also be made of the technical term used in medicine at
> least as early as 1878, in _The Dublin journal of medical science_ p265,
> then through the remainder of the 19th and into the 20th centuries:
>
> Congenital Misplacement (Dystopia) of the Right Kidney.
>
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047000982&view=1up&seq=293&q1=dystopia
>
>
>
> On 10/25/22 14:59, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> > Jesse's wonderful Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction has two
> > senses for the noun dystopia. The July 23, 1919 citation may fit sense
> > 1: a work set in a dystopia.
> >
> > https://sfdictionary.com/view/2228/dystopia
> > https://sfdictionary.com/view/159/dystopia
>
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 5:38 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
> > <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Congratulations on your impressive antedating, Fred. Following your
> >> lead, here is a citation a few months earlier in Plymouth, England.
> >>
> >> Date: July 23, 1919
> >> Newspaper: The Western Morning News
> >> Newspaper Location: Plymouth, Devon, England
> >> Article: New or Recent Books
> >> Quote Page 2, Column 7
> >> Database: Newspapers.com
> >> https://www.newspapers.com/image/816090475/?terms=dystopia&match=1
> >>
> >> [Begin excerpt]
> >> ANYMOON. By Horace Bleakley. (John Lane, 7s net.)--Whether Mr.
> >> Bleakley is a prophet in his own country or wishes to be regarded as
> >> one is not very evident. He may not take his dystopia, if one may call
> >> it so, any more seriously than Sir Thomas More took his provision of
> >> the ideal future state.
> >> [End excerpt]
>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 6:56 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> dystopia (OED 1952)
> >>>
> >>> 1919 _N.Y. Times_ 19 Dec. 14/3 (Newspapers.com)  Under the august reign of Mr. TOWNLEY North Dakota has no use for such a guarantee or such a government.  For the moment it belongs to Utopia or Dystopia rather than these United States.
>
> --
> James Eric Lawson
>
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