American Literary Culture and the Fatalistic View of Technology
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Jump to navigationJump to searchMarx, Leo. "American Literary Culture and the Fatalistic View of Technology." In the Technology and Pessimism special issue of Alternative Futures: 45-70, q.v. below, under M. Barton and D. W. Stevenson, guest co-eds., under Background.
An updating of LM's Machine in the Garden, with esp. good comments on technology in classic American literature (including H. Adams' "Dynamo and the Virgin" [q.v. under Background], Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn).