Perspectives on Technology in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias, Travel Literature, and Utopian Fiction
Clark, Rex Marvin
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Description
Title
Perspectives on Technology in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias, Travel Literature, and Utopian Fiction
Author(s)
Clark, Rex Marvin
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Knust, Herbert
Department of Study
Comparative Literature
Discipline
Comparative Literature
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History of Science
Language
eng
Abstract
The popularity of the technology theme during the last decades of the eighteenth century shows it was seen as a valuable tool for the reform of society. When technology is taken up as a literary topic in utopian science fiction and in dystopian criticisms of the technical later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it had acquired much different connotations from the historical context of the eighteenth century.
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