The Flying Machine and Modern LiteratureIndiana University Press, 1986 - 253 стор. 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 Review This book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature. |
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Modern Century | 14 |
Birds with a Human Face | 41 |
Wells and The War in the Air | 63 |
The Response of Poets to the | 97 |
Some Versions of Kitty Hawk | 110 |
Forms of Flight in the 1930s | 131 |
The Poetry of Firebombing | 152 |
Three Versions of Manifest Destiny | 172 |
The Moon Landing and Modern Literature | 191 |
Some Texts of the 1970s | 212 |
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Бібліографічна інформація
| Назва | The Flying Machine and Modern Literature |
| Автори | Laurence Goldstein, Reader in the Department of Philosophy Laurence Goldstein |
| Видання | ілюстроване |
| Видавець | Indiana University Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0253322189, 9780253322180 |
| Обсяг | 253 стор. |
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