Rereading the Machine in the Garden

Nature and Technology in American Culture

Eric C. Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schroder, Florian Sedlmeier

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Campus Verlag
15 February 2015

The Arts: General & Reference; Anthologies (non-poetry); Social & cultural anthropology; Travel & holiday guides

Series: CV - North American Studies

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.

Edited by: Eric C. Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schroder, Florian Sedlmeier
Imprint: Campus Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Volume: 34
Dimensions: Height: 21mm, Width: 14mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9783593501918
ISBN 10: 3593501910
Series: CV - North American Studies
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 15 February 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Erbacher is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Muenater, Germany Nicole Maruo-Schroder is professor of cultural studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Florian Sedlmeier is assistant professor of American literature in the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.