Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment - Giulia Iannuzzi
Samuel Madden’s 'Memoirs of the Twentieth Century' (1733)
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Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment is een boek van Giulia Iannuzzi. Deze editie wordt tweedehands aangeboden door 1 boekverkoper(s) uit Antwerpen. Voor meer info, bekijk de beschrijving van de beschikbare exemplaren verder op deze pagina.
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2024Uitgever: Brepols Publishers460 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503606024ISBN-13: 9782503606026Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Summary Published anonymously in 1733, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is one of the earliest futuristic novels known in Anglophone and Euro-American literature. It foregrounds an acceleration of history brought about by an increasing degree of global interconnectedness, and the exclusion of prophetism and astrology as credible ways to know the future. The work of Samuel Madden, an Irish writer and philanthropist of Whig sympathies, it consists of a collection of diplomatic letters composed in the 1990s, ...
