Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

Samuel Butler and Utopian Technologies

Educational Feb 3, 2017 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection

S1 E5: Shift your attention from rural American utopias to explore from a different perspective: Victorian anxieties about technology and the vanishing frontier. Analyze these fears in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which utilizes utopian conventions and heavy doses of satire to critique religion, health, education, and humanity's increasingly complex relationship to machines.

Educational Feb 3, 2017 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2017
Run Time: 31 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.