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Technology in American literature / edited by Kathleen N. Monahan, James S. Nolan.
Van Pelt Library PS509.T37 T43 2000
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature.
- Technology--Literary collections.
- Technology.
- United States--Literary collections.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 283 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2000]
- Summary:
- Is technology a boon to humanity, providing us with the means to further the dignity and prosperity of the human race? Or is it a deceptive lure that will draw society into a mind-numbing state, where our essence is stripped and we become machines ourselves? This reader draws together works that explore both answers to the question of technology's beneficence. Technology in American Literature is a great reference source for literature classes, as well as for technological institutions seeking to introduce humanities into the curriculum.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The 1880's to the 1920's
- from The Great Stone of Sardis / Frank Stockton 4
- from Through the Earth / Clement Fezendie 9
- from The Causes of American Nervousness / George M. Beard 18
- from Edison's Conquest of Mars / Garrett Serviss 25
- from Looking Backward and Equality / Edward Bellamy 45
- from Colonel Sellers as a Scientist / Mark Twain, William Dean Howells 57
- "Mannahatta" / Walt Whitman 85
- "As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days" / Walt Whitman 87
- "Orange Buds by Mail from Florida" / Walt Whitman 88
- "Years of the Modern" / Walt Whitman 89
- "In the Sleeper" / Walt Whitman 91
- from The Octopus / Frank Norris 92
- "Factory Windows Are Always Broken" / Vachel Lindsay 98
- "In the Station of the Metro" / Ezra Pound 99
- from The Man Who Ended War / Hollis Godfrey 100
- "The Dynamo and the Virgin" / Henry Adams 113
- Chapter 2 The 1920's to the 1960's
- "Progress" / E.B. White 125
- "Lift Up Thine Eyes" / Sherwood Anderson 127
- "Mr. Murphy of New York" / Thomas McMorrow 133
- from Maza of the Moon / Otis Adelbert Kline 148
- "The Sunless Sea" / Rachel Carson 152
- "pity this busy monster, manunkind" / E.E. Cummings 166
- from The Illustrated Man / Ray Bradbury 167
- "Merritt Parkway" / Denise Levertov 180
- from "Chicago Poem" / Lew Welch 182
- from Visit to a Small Planet / Gore Vidal 184
- Chapter 3 The 1960's to 2000
- "Beer Can" / John Updike 208
- "The Mouth of the Hudson" / Robert Lowell 209
- "Eco-Catastrophe" / Paul Ehrlich 211
- "The Filling Station" / Elizabeth Bishop 222
- from I, Robot / Isaac Asimov 224
- "Resisting Big Brother" / Samuel Florman 249
- from He, She and It / Marge Piercy 254
- "Interstellar Tract" / Bruce Boston 262
- "Anatomical Transparencies" / Robert Frazier 265
- "Looking Back at Apollo" / Steve Rasnic Tem 267
- "My Mother and the Wheel of Fire" / Al Zolynas 269
- "A Clean Escape" / John Kessel 272.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0761817093
- OCLC:
- 43851421
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