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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... theme of withdrawal from society into an idealized landscape is central to a remarkably large number of them. Again and again, the imagination of our most respected writers— one thinks of Cooper, Thoreau, Melville, Faulkner, Frost ...
... theme of withdrawal from society into an idealized landscape is central to a remarkably large number of them. Again and again, the imagination of our most respected writers— one thinks of Cooper, Thoreau, Melville, Faulkner, Frost ...
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... pastorals whose controlling theme is a variant of the conflict between art and nature-nature being represented by an idealized image of landscape. * The device figures what Erwin Panofsky calls a discrepancy Sleepy Hollow, 1844 25.
... pastorals whose controlling theme is a variant of the conflict between art and nature-nature being represented by an idealized image of landscape. * The device figures what Erwin Panofsky calls a discrepancy Sleepy Hollow, 1844 25.
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... theme, and it has been a special concern of writers working in the pastoral tradi. tion from the time of Theocritus and Virgil. Besides, the subject has a long foreground in Shakespeare's own work — witness A Midsummer Night's Dream, As ...
... theme, and it has been a special concern of writers working in the pastoral tradi. tion from the time of Theocritus and Virgil. Besides, the subject has a long foreground in Shakespeare's own work — witness A Midsummer Night's Dream, As ...
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... theme is inherent in the contradictory images of the American landscape that we find in Elizabethan travel reports, including those which he seems to have read be. fore writing The Tempest. l Most Elizabethan ideas of America were ...
... theme is inherent in the contradictory images of the American landscape that we find in Elizabethan travel reports, including those which he seems to have read be. fore writing The Tempest. l Most Elizabethan ideas of America were ...
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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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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