| Description |
xviii, 357 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Vernacular tradition in American writing -- Pilot and the passenger: landscape conventions and the style of Huckleberry Finn -- Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn -- Melville's parable of the walls -- Henry Thoreau: Excursions ; Two Thoreaus -- Robert Frost: a literary life -- pt. 2. Machine in the garden -- Literature, technology, and covert culture (with Bernard Bowron and Arnold Rose) -- American institutions and ecological ideals -- Neo-romantic critique of science -- American literary culture and the fatalistic view of technology -- Puzzle of anti-urbanism in American literature -- pt. 3. F.O. Matthiessen: Teacher ; "Double consciousness" and the cultural politics of an American critic -- "Noble shit": the uncivil response of American writers to civil religion -- Susan Sontag's "New Left pastoral": notes on revolutionary pastoralism -- American Revolution and the American landscape -- Irving Howe: the pathos of the Left in the Reagan era. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Literature and technology -- United States.
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Literature and technology. |
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United States. |
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Literature and society -- United States.
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Literature and society. |
| Indexed Term |
English literature American writers, 1830- - Critical studies |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Marx, Leo, 1919- Pilot and the passenger. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)572631609 |
| ISBN |
019504875X alkaline paper |
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9780195048759 alkaline paper |
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