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“leo marx”

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  • The Machine in the Garden

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    by Leo Marx ...
    For 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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    by Leo Marx ...
    For 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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Progress

    Fact or Illusion?

    Edited by Leo Marx, Bruce Mazlish ...
    Progress, perhaps the fundamental secular belief of modern Western society, has come under heavy fire recently because, after three centuries, advances in science and technology seem increasingly to bring problems in their wake: alienation, environmental degradation, the threat of nuclear destruction. The idea of progress is brought into question by postmodern critique, attacking the notion of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West

    by S. T. Joshi ...
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  • After the Fall

    American Literature Since 9/11

    by Richard Gray ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    After the FallA common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.” After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray – widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature – ... Read more

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  • A Cormac McCarthy Companion

    The Border Trilogy

    Edited by Edwin T. Arnold, Dianne C. Luce ...
    With essays by Edwin T. Arnold, J. Douglas Canfield, Christine Chollier, George Guillemin, Dianne C. Luce, Jacqueline Scoones, Phillip A. Snyder, Nell Sullivan, and John WegnerThe completion of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy--All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998)--marked a major achievement in American literature. Only ten years earlier this now ... Read more

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  • Making Something Happen

    American Political Poetry between the World Wars

    by Michael Thurston ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    “Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s — the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move ... Read more

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  • Sensational Modernism

    Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America

    by Joseph B. Entin ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues ... Read more

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  • Alien Audiences

    Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie

    by M. Barker, K. Egan, S. Ralph, T. Phillips ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged with it? This book presents the – sometimes very surprising – results of a major audience research project, exploring how people remember and continue to engage with the film. ... Read more

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  • Undisciplined

    Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

    by Nihad M. Farooq ...
    Series Book 9 - America and the Long 19th Century
    In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq’s Undisciplined encourages ... Read more

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  • Melville’s Philosophies

    Edited by Professor Branka Arsic, Dr. K. L. Evans ...
    Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville ... Read more

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