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Rereading the Machine in the Garden
Eric C. Erbacher (Ed.)
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Paperback. Reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden that laid out by Leo Marx years ago. Extending the relevance of Marx's theory from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this title examines the filmic and literary representations of industrial, bureaucratic, and digital gardens; explore its role in the aftermath of the Civil War and more. Editor(s): Erbacher, Eric; Maruo-Schroder, Nicole; Sedlmeier, Florian. Series: North American Studies. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; DQ; JHMC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 83 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Campus Verlag Germany
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
North American Studies
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN
9783593501918
SKU
V9783593501918
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About Eric C. Erbacher (Ed.)
Eric Erbacher is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Muenater, Germany Nicole Maruo-Schroder is professor of cultural studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Florian Sedlmeier is assistant professor of American literature in the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
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