Rereading the machine in the garden : nature and technology in American culture /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Erbacher, Eric C. (Editor), Maruo-Schröder, Nicole (Editor), Sedlmeier, Florian (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Frankfurt-on-Main ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2014]
Series:	Nordamerikastudien ; Bd. 34.
Subjects:	Marx, Leo, > 1919- > Machine in the garden > Congresses. United States > Civilization > Congresses. Nature > Social aspects > United States > Congresses. Technology > Social aspects > United States > Congresses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Rereading The machine in the garden / Eric Erbahcer, 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 Trachtenberg.