Samuel Madden and His Prophecy of the Large Companies in Modern Britain  

作　　者：Zhang Naihe 张乃和(Tianjin Normal University,Tianjin,P.R.China)

机构地区：[1]Tianjin Normal University,Tianjin,P.R.China

出　　处：《World History Studies》2019年第1期104-109,共6页世界史研究（英文版）

摘　　要：In 1733,Samuel Madden(1686-1765)anonymously published a book named Memoirs of the Twentieth Century.Some scholars have paid attention to the book,but there are few scholars who focused on Madden's prophecy about the large companies in twentieth-century Britain.And there are many disagreements among scholars about the nature of the book,which was composed of 17 letters pretended to be written in the late twentieth century.Some letters might be classified as a kind of science fiction or satire,but as a whole the book should be regarded as a new kind of utopian writing,even further as the early form of future history.Especially the last reply dated“London,Chelsea,Feb.24,1999”should be regarded as an independent text,and it gave us a vision of the corporate utopia or the utopia of company with its description of two large companies.

关 键 词：Samuel Madden MEMOIRS of the Twentieth Century PROPHECY LARGE COMPANIES MODERN BRITAIN 

分 类 号：K[历史地理]