The assault on progress
Subtitle: technology and time in American literature
By: J. Adam Johns.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780817316259; 9780817380526
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Technology in literature; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Time in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The garden in the machine; title: Melville, the pyramid, and the machine; title: Mumford, Melville, and megatechnics; title: Faulkner, dead time, and the southern machine; title: Ellison and the technological hero; title: conclusion: telos, bios, techne.