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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... native imagination. The reason is clear enough. The ruling motive of the good shepherd, leading figure of the classic, Virgilian mode, was to withdraw from the great world and begin a new life in a fresh, green landscape. And now here ...
... native imagination. The reason is clear enough. The ruling motive of the good shepherd, leading figure of the classic, Virgilian mode, was to withdraw from the great world and begin a new life in a fresh, green landscape. And now here ...
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... native variant of that international form of “primitivism” to which Ortega y Gasset, among others, began calling attention years ago. In The Revolt of the Masses (1930), Ortega uses the term to describe the outlook of a new kind of man ...
... native variant of that international form of “primitivism” to which Ortega y Gasset, among others, began calling attention years ago. In The Revolt of the Masses (1930), Ortega uses the term to describe the outlook of a new kind of man ...
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... circumstances were, and how they influenced the development of native pastoralism, both sentimental and complex, is the burden of what follows. || Shakespeare's American Fable If any man shall accuse these Sleepy Hollow, 1844 33.
... circumstances were, and how they influenced the development of native pastoralism, both sentimental and complex, is the burden of what follows. || Shakespeare's American Fable If any man shall accuse these Sleepy Hollow, 1844 33.
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... natives are “most gentle, loving and faithfull, voide of all guile and treason, and such as live after the maner of the golden age.” ” The familiar picture of America as a site for a new golden age was a commonplace of Elizabethan ...
... natives are “most gentle, loving and faithfull, voide of all guile and treason, and such as live after the maner of the golden age.” ” The familiar picture of America as a site for a new golden age was a commonplace of Elizabethan ...
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Inhalt
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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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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