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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... meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination. The reason is clear enough. The ruling motive of the good shepherd, leading figure of the classic, Virgilian mode, was to ...
... meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination. The reason is clear enough. The ruling motive of the good shepherd, leading figure of the classic, Virgilian mode, was to ...
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... meaning and value that clarifies our situation today.1 The notion that pastoralism remains a significant force in American life calls for an explanation. At first thought the relevance of the ancient ideal to our concerns in the second ...
... meaning and value that clarifies our situation today.1 The notion that pastoralism remains a significant force in American life calls for an explanation. At first thought the relevance of the ancient ideal to our concerns in the second ...
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... a chance of defining the complex relation between serious literature and the larger body of meanings and values, the general culture, which envelops it. An initial receptivity to the pastoral impulse is one I O THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
... a chance of defining the complex relation between serious literature and the larger body of meanings and values, the general culture, which envelops it. An initial receptivity to the pastoral impulse is one I O THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
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... meaning in the event itself — its capacity to express much of what he thinks and feels about his situation. 2 On the morning of July 27, 1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne sat down in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, to await (as he put it) ...
... meaning in the event itself — its capacity to express much of what he thinks and feels about his situation. 2 On the morning of July 27, 1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne sat down in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, to await (as he put it) ...
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... meaning of this memento mori inescapable they sometimes inserted the printed motto, Et in Arcadia Ego, meaning “I [Death] also am in Arcadia.”) * Nevertheless, the term counterforce is applicable to a good deal of modern American ...
... meaning of this memento mori inescapable they sometimes inserted the printed motto, Et in Arcadia Ego, meaning “I [Death] also am in Arcadia.”) * Nevertheless, the term counterforce is applicable to a good deal of modern American ...
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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