30 avril 2024
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Giulia Iannuzzi, « Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment », Geographies of Time, ID : 10670/1.g82r2r
Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733) is a fascinating piece of early eighteenth-century literature and an important chapter in the history of futuristic imagination and of an increasing global interconnectedness. Featuring an essay that contextualises the novel and an annotated edition of the text, this study explores issues central to the Enlightenment project: the negotiation of what falls within the limits of credibility, the existence of irrational beliefs in The Age of Reason, and is...