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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... idea of America entered the mind of Europe and come down to the present—to, say, the death of Robert Frost in 1963 ... ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination — we may call them “cultural symbols” — meet. To appreciate ...
... idea of America entered the mind of Europe and come down to the present—to, say, the death of Robert Frost in 1963 ... ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination — we may call them “cultural symbols” — meet. To appreciate ...
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... the sentiments of another shepherd. Thus what had been intended as a dramatic encounter with death was replaced by a relatively sentimental and tranquillizing idea, in consonance with the main drift of the age. 26 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
... the sentiments of another shepherd. Thus what had been intended as a dramatic encounter with death was replaced by a relatively sentimental and tranquillizing idea, in consonance with the main drift of the age. 26 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
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... idea of the new machine as a vehicle for an illusory voyage of salvation whose darkest meanings are reserved for readers of Bunyan. Like the hero of The Pilgrim's Progress, the American pilgrim thinks he is on his way to the Heavenly ...
... idea of the new machine as a vehicle for an illusory voyage of salvation whose darkest meanings are reserved for readers of Bunyan. Like the hero of The Pilgrim's Progress, the American pilgrim thinks he is on his way to the Heavenly ...
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... idea of America as a garden is the controlling metaphor of his entire report. He describes the place where the men first put ashore as , so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the Sea overflowed them, of which we found such ...
... idea of America as a garden is the controlling metaphor of his entire report. He describes the place where the men first put ashore as , so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the Sea overflowed them, of which we found such ...
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... idea that the New World was or might become Arcadia, and we hardly need to itemize the similarities between the “gentle, loving, and faithfull” Indians of Virginia and the shepherds of pastoral. In Elizabethan writing the distinction ...
... idea that the New World was or might become Arcadia, and we hardly need to itemize the similarities between the “gentle, loving, and faithfull” Indians of Virginia and the shepherds of pastoral. In Elizabethan writing the distinction ...
Inhalt
3 | |
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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