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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... and the other in essence political — the ideal has figured in the American view of life which is, in the widest sense, the subject of this book. 3 My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of I: Sleepy Hollow, 1844.
... and the other in essence political — the ideal has figured in the American view of life which is, in the widest sense, the subject of this book. 3 My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of I: Sleepy Hollow, 1844.
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... politics, in the “localism” invoked to oppose an adequate national system of education, in the power of the farm bloc ... political power grossly out of proportion to its size. It manifests itself in our leisure-time activities, in the ...
... politics, in the “localism” invoked to oppose an adequate national system of education, in the power of the farm bloc ... political power grossly out of proportion to its size. It manifests itself in our leisure-time activities, in the ...
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... he created the symbolic landscape, a delicate blend of myth and reality, that was to be particularly relevant to American experience. For another, it is in the Eclogues that the political overtones of the Sleepy Hollow, 1844 19.
... he created the symbolic landscape, a delicate blend of myth and reality, that was to be particularly relevant to American experience. For another, it is in the Eclogues that the political overtones of the Sleepy Hollow, 1844 19.
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... political overtones of the pastoral situation become evident. In the background of the first eclogue, sometimes called “The Dispossessed,” there was a specific action of the Roman government: the expropriation of a number of small ...
... political overtones of the pastoral situation become evident. In the background of the first eclogue, sometimes called “The Dispossessed,” there was a specific action of the Roman government: the expropriation of a number of small ...
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... politics, into nature. The difference is that the primitivist hero keeps going, as it were, so that eventually he locates value as far as possible, in space or time or both, from organized society; the shepherd, on the other hand, seeks ...
... politics, into nature. The difference is that the primitivist hero keeps going, as it were, so that eventually he locates value as far as possible, in space or time or both, from organized society; the shepherd, on the other hand, seeks ...
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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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