The Flying Machine and Modern Literature

ISBN-13: 9780253322180 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 288 str.

Laurence Goldstein

Opis

"This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology." --Herbert Sussman..". succeeds admirably, fascinatingly on all counts... " --American Literature..". a landmark in the study of literary and technological history." --NMAH..". fascinating... a welcome addition to the growing scholarship about the impact of technology on the modern imagination." --Journal of Modern Literature Annual ReviewThis book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature.