The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaFor 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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Page 19
... Arcadia. It is here that 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 ...
... Arcadia. It is here that 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 ...
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... Arcadia Ego, meaning “I [Death] also am in Arcadia.”) * Nevertheless, the term counterforce is applicable to a good deal of modern American writing. The anti-pastoral forces at work in our literature seem indeed to become increasingly ...
... Arcadia Ego, meaning “I [Death] also am in Arcadia.”) * Nevertheless, the term counterforce is applicable to a good deal of modern American writing. The anti-pastoral forces at work in our literature seem indeed to become increasingly ...
Page 38
... Arcadia (1590), to name only two of the more famous Elizabethan pastorals. It is impossible to separate the taste for pastoral and the excitement, felt throughout Europe, about the New World. We think of the well-known golden age ...
... Arcadia (1590), to name only two of the more famous Elizabethan pastorals. It is impossible to separate the taste for pastoral and the excitement, felt throughout Europe, about the New World. We think of the well-known golden age ...
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... Arcadia, and we hardly need to itemize the similarities between the “gentle, loving, and faithfull” Indians of Virginia and the shepherds of pastoral. In Elizabethan writing the distinction between primitive and pastoral styles of life ...
... Arcadia, and we hardly need to itemize the similarities between the “gentle, loving, and faithfull” Indians of Virginia and the shepherds of pastoral. In Elizabethan writing the distinction between primitive and pastoral styles of life ...
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... Arcadia, we are reminded of Elysium, Atlantis, and enchanted gardens, Eden and Tirnanogue and the fragrant bower where the Hesperides stood watch over the golden apples. Centuries of longing and revery had been invested in the ...
... Arcadia, we are reminded of Elysium, Atlantis, and enchanted gardens, Eden and Tirnanogue and the fragrant bower where the Hesperides stood watch over the golden apples. Centuries of longing and revery had been invested in the ...
Contents
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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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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Limited preview - 2000 |
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Limited preview - 2000 |
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