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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... voyage of salvation whose darkest meanings are reserved for readers of Bunyan. Like the hero of The Pilgrim's Progress, the American pilgrim thinks he is on his way to the Heavenly City. As it turns out, however, the same road can lead ...
... voyage of salvation whose darkest meanings are reserved for readers of Bunyan. Like the hero of The Pilgrim's Progress, the American pilgrim thinks he is on his way to the Heavenly City. As it turns out, however, the same road can lead ...
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... voyage to the New World. In 1609 the Sea Adventure, one of a fleet of ships headed for Virginia, was caught in a violent storm and separated from the rest. Eventually it ran aground in the Bermudas and all aboard got safely to shore ...
... voyage to the New World. In 1609 the Sea Adventure, one of a fleet of ships headed for Virginia, was caught in a violent storm and separated from the rest. Eventually it ran aground in the Bermudas and all aboard got safely to shore ...
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... voyage to Virginia in 1584, Captain Arthur Barlowe was not yet in sight of the coast when he got a vivid impression that a lovely garden lay ahead. We “found shole water,” he writes, “wher we smelt 36 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
... voyage to Virginia in 1584, Captain Arthur Barlowe was not yet in sight of the coast when he got a vivid impression that a lovely garden lay ahead. We “found shole water,” he writes, “wher we smelt 36 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
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... Voyage,” with its obvious debt to Captain Barlowe's report. He praises “VIRGINIA / Earth's only paradise,” where . . . Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, 38 ...
... Voyage,” with its obvious debt to Captain Barlowe's report. He praises “VIRGINIA / Earth's only paradise,” where . . . Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, 38 ...
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... voyage, a violent storm, hostile Indians, or, most important, differ. ent presuppositions about the universe, America might be made to seem the very opposite of a bountiful garden. Travelers then resorted to another conventional ...
... voyage, a violent storm, hostile Indians, or, most important, differ. ent presuppositions about the universe, America might be made to seem the very opposite of a bountiful garden. Travelers then resorted to another conventional ...
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