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The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
| Author: | Jane C. Loudon |
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Henry Colburn, 1827 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
One of the earliest science fiction novels to be written by a woman, The Mummy! looks at the future of England in the year 2126. Published in 1827, Loudon creates a Catholic England that is ruled by virgin queens. The country, though scientifically advanced enough to have "steam percussion movable bridges" and aerial balloons for international travel, is on the brink of a moral decline that is driven by political treachery and greed. Moral equilibrium is restored by the mummy Cheops who, having been reanimated, makes amends for his own corrupt past by restoring order, reason, and morality to the twenty-second century.
Influenced by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man, Loudon projects a future world in which morality is a central issue. Loudon's novel is thus a political allegory of Regency England, a society that in her view was falling apart for the lack of moral standards. Nevertheless, Loudon is optimistic about England's potential in the industrial age and suggests that a future world will be enhanced by science and technology if it is also guided by moral sense.
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