Perspectives on Technology in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias, Travel Literature, and Utopian Fiction

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Clark, Rex Marvin

Contributors dc:contributor

• Knust, Herbert

• History of Science

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9904417

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87307