The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaOxford University Press, 24.02.2000 - 430 Seiten For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines the difference between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society. This new edition is appearing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text. It features a new afterword by the author on the process of writing this pioneering book, a work that all but founded the discipline now called American Studies. |
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... Virginia . . . , London, 1610 SoME of the connections between The Tempest and America are well known. We know, for one thing, that Shakespeare wrote the play three or possibly four years after the first permanent colony had been ...
... Virginia . . . , London, 1610 SoME of the connections between The Tempest and America are well known. We know, for one thing, that Shakespeare wrote the play three or possibly four years after the first permanent colony had been ...
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... Virginia in 1584, Captain Arthur Barlowe was not yet in sight of the coast when he got a vivid impression that a lovely garden lay ahead. We “found shole water,” he writes, “wher we smelt 36 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
... Virginia in 1584, Captain Arthur Barlowe was not yet in sight of the coast when he got a vivid impression that a lovely garden lay ahead. We “found shole water,” he writes, “wher we smelt 36 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
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... Virginia in what was to become a cardinal image of America: an immense garden of “incredible abundance.” The idea of America as a garden is the controlling metaphor of his entire report. He describes the place where the men first put ...
... Virginia in what was to become a cardinal image of America: an immense garden of “incredible abundance.” The idea of America as a garden is the controlling metaphor of his entire report. He describes the place where the men first put ...
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... Captain Barlowe's report. He praises “VIRGINIA / Earth's only paradise,” where . . . Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, 38 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
... Captain Barlowe's report. He praises “VIRGINIA / Earth's only paradise,” where . . . Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, 38 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
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... Virginia and the shepherds of pastoral. In Elizabethan writing the distinction between primitive and pastoral styles of life is often blurred, and devices first used by Theocritus and Virgil appear in many descriptions of the new ...
... Virginia and the shepherds of pastoral. In Elizabethan writing the distinction between primitive and pastoral styles of life is often blurred, and devices first used by Theocritus and Virgil appear in many descriptions of the new ...
Inhalt
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34 | |
The Garden | 73 |
The Machine | 145 |
Two Kingdoms of Force | 227 |
Epilogue The Garden of Ashes | 354 |
AFTERWORD | 367 |
NOTES | 387 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 407 |
INDEX | 409 |
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2000 |
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Adams Ahab Ahab's American Arcadia attitude beauty beginning Beverley Beverley's Caliban called Carlyle century chapter civilization Clemens Coxe culture describes dream eclogue economic Emerson episode Ethan Brand Europe European F. O. Matthiessen fable fact factories farmer feeling forces garden Gatsby Gonzalo green Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry Nash Smith Huck Huckleberry Finn human idea idyll imagination industrial Ishmael island Jefferson kind land language Leo Marx letter literary literature machine power machinery manufactures Mark Twain meaning mechanical Melville Melville's metaphor middle landscape mind Moby-Dick mode moral myth native nature Nick pastoral ideal Pastoral Poetry poem poet poetry political primitivist progress Prospero raft railroad rhetoric romantic rural says scene seems sense sentimental Shakespeare Sleepy Hollow social society Starbuck steam symbolic Tempest Tench Coxe theme thing Thoreau thought tion tone toral ture Virgin Virginia voyage Walden Walker whale wild wilderness words writers York