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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... episode in the life of a writer who was to become famous, it is in other respects a typical and indeed commonplace event of the time. No doubt most of the writer's contemporaries, whether literary men or not, had similar experiences ...
... episode in the life of a writer who was to become famous, it is in other respects a typical and indeed commonplace event of the time. No doubt most of the writer's contemporaries, whether literary men or not, had similar experiences ...
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... about the episode: the writer sitting in his green retreat dutifully attaching words to natural facts, trying to tap the subterranean flow of thought and feeling and then, suddenly, the startling 14 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
... about the episode: the writer sitting in his green retreat dutifully attaching words to natural facts, trying to tap the subterranean flow of thought and feeling and then, suddenly, the startling 14 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
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... episode have appeared everywhere in American writing since the 1840's. We recall the scene in Walden where Thoreau ... episodes, the machine is made to appear with startling suddenness. Sometimes it abruptly enters a Happy Valley, at ...
... episode have appeared everywhere in American writing since the 1840's. We recall the scene in Walden where Thoreau ... episodes, the machine is made to appear with startling suddenness. Sometimes it abruptly enters a Happy Valley, at ...
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... episode (a “pastoral interlude") within a poem, drama, or novel which is not, strictly speaking, a pastoral. I regard those works as advanced civilization. During the seventeenth century, Poussin and other landscape. pastorals whose ...
... episode (a “pastoral interlude") within a poem, drama, or novel which is not, strictly speaking, a pastoral. I regard those works as advanced civilization. During the seventeenth century, Poussin and other landscape. pastorals whose ...
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... episode — just at the time our first significant literary generation was coming to maturity. Much of the singular quality of this era is conveyed by the trope of the interrupted idyll. The locomotive, associated with fire, smoke, speed ...
... episode — just at the time our first significant literary generation was coming to maturity. Much of the singular quality of this era is conveyed by the trope of the interrupted idyll. The locomotive, associated with fire, smoke, speed ...
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 |
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