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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... mode, was to withdraw from the great world and begin a new life in a fresh, green landscape. And now here was a virgin continentl Inevitably the European mind was dazzled by the prospect. With an unspoiled hemisphere in view it seemed ...
... mode, was to withdraw from the great world and begin a new life in a fresh, green landscape. And now here was a virgin continentl Inevitably the European mind was dazzled by the prospect. With an unspoiled hemisphere in view it seemed ...
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... 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 myth ...
... 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 myth ...
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... 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.
... 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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... mode of perception. To do that, however, is to miss a chance of defining the complex relation between serious literature and the larger body of meanings and values, the general culture, which envelops it. An initial receptivity to the ...
... mode of perception. To do that, however, is to miss a chance of defining the complex relation between serious literature and the larger body of meanings and values, the general culture, which envelops it. An initial receptivity to the ...
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... mode since the time of Virgil. Although Theocritus is regarded as the first pastoral poet, Virgil's Eclogues are the true fountainhead of the pastoral strain in our literature. For one thing, in these poems Virgil (as one classical ...
... mode since the time of Virgil. Although Theocritus is regarded as the first pastoral poet, Virgil's Eclogues are the true fountainhead of the pastoral strain in our literature. For one thing, in these poems Virgil (as one classical ...
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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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