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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... literary context. It was embodied in various utopian schemes for making America the site of a new beginning for Western society. In both forms— one literary and the other in essence political — the ideal has figured in the American view ...
... literary context. It was embodied in various utopian schemes for making America the site of a new beginning for Western society. In both forms— one literary and the other in essence political — the ideal has figured in the American view ...
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... literary materials. At points I shall consider examples which have little or no intrinsic literary value. In fact, this is not, strictly speaking, a book about literature; it is about the region of culture where literature, general ...
... literary materials. At points I shall consider examples which have little or no intrinsic literary value. In fact, this is not, strictly speaking, a book about literature; it is about the region of culture where literature, general ...
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... literary mode. Nor for that matter do they often invoke the word “pastoral.” But whether they refer to “agrarianism” (the usual term), or to the hold of “rural values” upon the national consciousness (Hofstadter), or to the “agrarian ...
... literary mode. Nor for that matter do they often invoke the word “pastoral.” But whether they refer to “agrarianism” (the usual term), or to the hold of “rural values” upon the national consciousness (Hofstadter), or to the “agrarian ...
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... a symbolic motion away from centers of civilization toward their opposite, nature, away from Sophistication toward simplicity, or, to introduce the cardinal metaphor of the literary mode, away from the city toward Sleepy Hollow, 1844 9.
... a symbolic motion away from centers of civilization toward their opposite, nature, away from Sophistication toward simplicity, or, to introduce the cardinal metaphor of the literary mode, away from the city toward Sleepy Hollow, 1844 9.
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... literary culture, however, we are struck at once by the omnipresence of the same motive. One has only to consider the titles which first come to mind from the classical canon of our literature — the American books admired most nowadays ...
... literary culture, however, we are struck at once by the omnipresence of the same motive. One has only to consider the titles which first come to mind from the classical canon of our literature — the American books admired most nowadays ...
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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