Rereading the Machine in the Garden
Nature and Technology in American Culture
Florian Sedlmeier editor Eric C Erbacher editor Nicole Maruo-Schröder editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Campus Verlag
Published:21st Apr '15
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This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out by Leo Marx fifty years ago. Contributors explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture and the arts, rereading it as a dialectic wherein nature is as much technologized as technology is naturalized. Extending the relevance of Marx's theory from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, they examine filmic and literary representations of industrial, bureaucratic, and digital gardens; explore its role in the aftermath of the Civil War and of rural electrification during the New Deal; its significance in landscape art as well as in ethnic literatures; and discuss the historical premises and continued impact of Marx's study.
ISBN: 9783593501918
Dimensions: 21mm x 14mm x 2mm
Weight: 340g
246 pages