This study, originally published in 1964, explores the role of machines and technology in 19th-century American literature, analyzing, among other examples, Thoreau's attention to the sound of trains in the woods of Walden, and Captain Ahab's similarity to an industrial mogul. In so doing, Marx investigates the possibility of a true 19th-century ...
These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms. Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism with his provocative remark that "the hand-mill gives you society ...
For courses in American Literary Survey.This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. Volume I covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
Leo Marx is one of the major critics of American culture, technology, and literature, and his widely influential The Machine in the Garden (Oxford, 1964) is a classic of American literary criticism. In The Pilot and the Passenger, he brings together essays written over four decades that explore the interplay among literature, technology, and ...
A collection of papers on alternative approaches to environmental issues, written in an accessible style and aimed at a general audience. Sections cover the elements and our understanding of them, social institutions and human-nature interactions, and modern technology's affect on our imagination.
These essays on paintings, prints, and photographs explore the wealth of railroad imagery in American art - from Thomas Cole's pastoral landscapes to the industrial muscle of works by Bellows, Luks, Marsh, and Sloan, and evocations of the frontier in photographs by Andrew Joseph Russell and William Henry Jackson.
Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good in good jacket. A good ex-library copy with library binding, a nice dustjacket, usual library markings and an occasional smudge or small stain. For quick delivery, please consider Expedited shipping-standard delivery ranges from 4-18 business days. Thank you! read more
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Spears, Monroe K. (Ed. ); Read, Herbert; Dobree, Bonamy; Bewley, Marius; Kirk, Russell; Marx, Leo; Jarrell, Randall; Turnell,...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The University of The South
Date Published: 2953
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps have edge wear, general shelf wear.; Contents: Read, "Originality"; Spender, "Rilke and the Angels, Eliot and the Shrines"; Dobree, "Science and Poetry in England"; Bewley, "A Truce of God for Melville"; Kirk, "York and Social Boredom"; Marx, "Melville's Parable of the Walls"; Jarrell, "Gertrude and Sidney"; Turnell, "The Novels of Prévost"; poetry and reviews by Fussell, Hanson, Kain, Nemerov, Ogden, ... read more
Description: 1962. An brief but interesting autograph note signed from critic Leo Marx, author of The Machine in the Garden, a seminal study of American literature, to Harvard philosopher Henry David Aiken. Marx expresses appreciation for an essay by Aiken on Peirce, noting a parallel to his own work: "How would you define the 'ends' of feeling as an operative sentiment? Are you tacitly invoking a category comparable to S. Langer's 'presentational' mode? " The note concludes with mention of an enclosed ... read more
Description: An archive of eigth offprints by the author of The Machine in the Garden, a ground-breaking study of the reaction to industrialization in American literature--"the Ahabs alone have been endowed with the power, the Ishmaels with the perception. " Marx was the first to foreground a major strain of ecological concern in classic American literature. All very good or better to near fine and inscribed to critic Harry Levin (the inscription to an essay on Eliot, Trilling and Huckleberry Finn notes ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780023796227ISBN:0023796227
Description: Good. Paperback. Used. Some Bent Pages; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 14081629 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780023796227. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780023796227ISBN:0023796227
Description: Very good. Paperback. Good Used. Minimal Bent Pages; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 19381339 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780023796227. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Corinth
Date Published: 1969
Description: Second edition. Very good in wrappers. Paperback, some light shelf rubbing on cover and spine, a few extremely light yellow spots on top of front cover, a very light hint of browning on page edges, clean text and tight binding, small bookstore sticker on bottom of half title page. read more
Edition: F
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1940
Description: Articles by James Tobin, G.R. Stange, Langdon P. Marvin, and Ernest J. Simmons. WPA-style woodblock cover and other illustrations by John Holabird. Article on 'Radcliffe Women'. Period ads. Overall good condition for age. Pages slightly yellowed. Cover intact but torn along spine and missing part of top right corner. 11 1\2" x 9". 23 pages. read more
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