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Gears and God : technocratic fiction, faith, and empire in Mark Twain's America /
"A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In this work, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novels--dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "This is Religious, and Totally Different"; Part I: Gears; 1. Inventing the Technocratic Exploration Tale: God, Gears, and Empire; 2. Building Imperialists: The Steam Man, "Used Up" Man, and Man in the Moon; 3. Imagining Inventors: Frank Reade and Dime-Novel Technocratic Exploration; Part II: God; 4. Discovering Biblical Literalism: Frank Reade Redux; 5. Confronting "Fol-de-Rol": Mark Twain, Technocracy, and Religion; 6. Reconstructing Biblical History: Technocratic Explorations, 1899-1910. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In this work, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novels--dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles. This genre proliferated during the same cultural moment when evolutionary science was dismantling Americans' prevailing, biblically based understanding of human history"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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