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- Title
Cacotopia: An Eighteenth-Century Appearance in News from the Dead (1715).
- Authors
Budakov, V. M.
- Abstract
The article explores the history of the word "cacotopia." The author reports that the "Oxford English Dictionary" states that the word was coined in 1818 by English reformer Jeremy Bentham as an opposite for the word "utopia," or "eutopia." The author suggests that the word appeared in the 1715 satirical periodical "News from the Dead: or, the Monthly Packet of True Intelligence from the Other World. Written by Mercury," attributed to Thomas Berington. The author examines uses of the word in the periodical and suggests that the root "caco" comes from the Greek word for "evil" or "ill."
- Subjects
ENGLISH etymology; HISTORY of the English language; BENTHAM, Jeremy, 1748-1832; ENGLISH satire; BERINGTON, Thomas; UTOPIAS in literature; 18TH century English literature; ENGLISH literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2011, Vol 58, Issue 3, p391
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjr103