
Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
Samuel Butler and Utopian Technologies
Educational · 3 Feb 2017 · 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E5: Exploring Victorian anxieties about technology and the vanishing frontier; analyzing these fears in Samuel Butler's "Erewhon", which utilizes utopian conventions and satire to critique various issues and humanity's relationship to machines.
Educational · 3 Feb 2017 · 31 min