Origins of Dystopia: When the Sleeper Wakes and We

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Aldridge, Alexandra. "Origins of Dystopia: When the Sleeper Wakes and We." CW [63]-84.[[1]]

"If Wells dramatized" complaints of 19th-c. liberals, "his literary disciple Zamiatin . . . focused on a society where social and economic injustice had long since been resolved through scientific management. The most compelling feature in We (and in successive dystopias modeled on Zamiatin's) is the indictment of scientific management . . ." (81).

RDE, Title, 17Aug19