Rereading the Machine in the Garden Format: Paperback

Edited by Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, and Florian Sedlmeier

ISBN 10: 3593501910 / ISBN 13: 9783593501918

Published by University of Chicago press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rereading the Machine in the Garden Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3593501910
• ISBN 13: 9783593501918
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Eric Erbacher is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Muenster, Germany.

Nicole Maruo-Schröder is professor of cultural studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. She is the author of Spaces and Places in Motion: Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature.

Florian Sedlmeier is assistant professor of American literature in the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. He is the author of The Postethnic Literary: Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000.