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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... pastoral mode since the time of Virgil. Although Theocritus is regarded as the first pastoral poet, Virgil's Eclogues are the true fountainhead of the pastoral strain in our literature. For one thing, in these poems Virgil (as one ...
... pastoral mode since the time of Virgil. Although Theocritus is regarded as the first pastoral poet, Virgil's Eclogues are the true fountainhead of the pastoral strain in our literature. For one thing, in these poems Virgil (as one ...
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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. is in the Eclogues ... poet himself) so that military veterans might be rewarded with the seized ... poem; let us consider it in greater detail.” The poem takes the form of a dialogue ...
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. is in the Eclogues ... poet himself) so that military veterans might be rewarded with the seized ... poem; let us consider it in greater detail.” The poem takes the form of a dialogue ...
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... poet in disguise — Tityrus represents Virgil himself—he has a stake in both worlds. In the first eclogue nothing makes the mediating character of the pastoral ideal so clear as the spatial symbolism in which it is expressed. The good ...
... poet in disguise — Tityrus represents Virgil himself—he has a stake in both worlds. In the first eclogue nothing makes the mediating character of the pastoral ideal so clear as the spatial symbolism in which it is expressed. The good ...
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... poetry of Wordsworth. The train stands for a more sophisticated, complex style of life than the one represented by ... pastoral ideal to the pressure of change — to an encroaching world of power and complexity or, in a word, to history. It is ...
... poetry of Wordsworth. The train stands for a more sophisticated, complex style of life than the one represented by ... pastoral ideal to the pressure of change — to an encroaching world of power and complexity or, in a word, to history. It is ...
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... Pastoral poetry in English has never in any other period enjoyed the vogue it had then. The exploration of North America coincided with the publication of Spenser's Virgilian poem, The Shepheards Calendar (1579) and Sidney's Arcadia ...
... Pastoral poetry in English has never in any other period enjoyed the vogue it had then. The exploration of North America coincided with the publication of Spenser's Virgilian poem, The Shepheards Calendar (1579) and Sidney's Arcadia ...
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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