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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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. is in the Eclogues that the political overtones of the pastoral situation become evident. In the background of the first eclogue, sometimes called “The Dispossessed,” there was a ...
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. is in the Eclogues that the political overtones of the pastoral situation become evident. In the background of the first eclogue, sometimes called “The Dispossessed,” there was a ...
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... eclogue certainly represents more than a simple wish-image of bucolic pleasure. No sooner does Virgil sketch in the ideal landscape than he discloses an alien world encroaching from without. Meliboeus represents this other world ...
... eclogue certainly represents more than a simple wish-image of bucolic pleasure. No sooner does Virgil sketch in the ideal landscape than he discloses an alien world encroaching from without. Meliboeus represents this other world ...
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... eclogue nothing makes the mediating character of the pastoral ideal so clear as the spatial symbolism in which it is expressed. The good place is a lovely green hollow. To arrive at this haven it is necessary to move away from Rome in ...
... eclogue nothing makes the mediating character of the pastoral ideal so clear as the spatial symbolism in which it is expressed. The good place is a lovely green hollow. To arrive at this haven it is necessary to move away from Rome in ...
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... eclogue with Hawthorne's notes in mind, is the similarity of the root conflict and of the over-all pattern of thought and emotion. By his presence alone Meliboeus reveals the inadequacy of the Arcadian situation as an image of human ...
... eclogue with Hawthorne's notes in mind, is the similarity of the root conflict and of the over-all pattern of thought and emotion. By his presence alone Meliboeus reveals the inadequacy of the Arcadian situation as an image of human ...
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... eclogue. As far as the narrative is concerned, nothing has been solved. The poem offers no hint of a “way out” for Meliboeus or those who inhabit the ravaged countryside. All that he gets for solace is one night's postponement of his ...
... eclogue. As far as the narrative is concerned, nothing has been solved. The poem offers no hint of a “way out” for Meliboeus or those who inhabit the ravaged countryside. All that he gets for solace is one night's postponement of his ...
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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