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Rereading the machine in the garden : nature and technology in American culture / Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Florian Sedlmeier (eds.).
- Title
- Rereading the machine in the garden : nature and technology in American culture / Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Florian Sedlmeier (eds.).
- Publication
- Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Description
- 246 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume 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 twenty-first centuries, 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 Leo Marx’s groundbreaking study."--
- Series Statement
- North American studies ; volume 34
- Uniform Title
- Nordamerikastudien ; Bd. 34.
- Alternative Title
- Machine in the garden
- Nature and technology in American culture
- Subject
- Note
- "This collection of essays is based on the workshop 'Shifting paradigms of the Machine in the garden: the economies of the rural, the pastoral, and the technological' conducted by the editors during the Sixtieth Annual Conference 'Rural America' of the German Association of American Studies in 2013."--Page 39.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Rereading The Machine in the Garden / Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Florian Sedlmeier -- The Politics of Imaging the Machine in the Garden in Antebellum Factory Literature / Katja Kanzler -- Eden Refound(ed): Post Civil War Literary Gardening / Kirsten Twelbeck -- The Dinosaur in the Garden: From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park / Susanne Hamscha -- Rural Electrification plus Government Power: Leo Marx, the Materialist Dialectic, and Power and the Land / Marlon Lieber -- Putting Machines into Gardens: Walter De Maria's Lightning Fields, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Pastoral Imagination / Laura Bieger -- The Machine in the Indigenous Garden: Leslie Marmon Silko's Garden in the Dunes / Christa Grewe-Volpp -- Small town Love on the Big Screen: The Trope of the Machine in the Garden in Hollywood Romantic Comedies / Klara Stephanie Szlezák -- The Garden in the Machine: Myth and Symbol in the Digital Age / Dietmar Meinel -- The Neoliberal Machine in the Bureaucratic Garden: Pastoral States of Mind in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King / James Dorson -- Epilogue: Politics and Culture In The Machine in the Garden / Alan Trachtenburg.
- ISBN
- 9783593501918 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 894197451
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library