New Amaziona Health Ads
Corbett's 1889 utopian novel, New Amazonia, presents us with a rather terrifying display of national health regulation in the form of a modified eugenic system, yet here my focus is drawn to this print edition's inclusion of popular health advertisements at the conclusion of the narrative. These, paired with the other quack-cures of the period, seem to speak to the obsession of Corbett's text on a healthy national state. Here the utopian formulations meld with the contemporary need to control, regulate, and modify the self to be counted as a member of the state system.