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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Tuscaloosa
The University of Alabama Press
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
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Reade, Frank, Jr. (Fictitious character)
> Twain, Mark
> Criticism and interpretation
> American fiction
> History and criticism
> Technology in literature
> Religion in literature
> Dime novels
> Literature and technology
> History
> Religion and literature
> Christianity in literature
> 1800-1899
> Technik
> Trivialliteratur
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- Inventing the technocratic exploration tale : God, gears, and empire -- Building imperialists : the steam man, "used up" man, and man in the moon -- Imagining inventors : Frank Reade and dime-novel technocratic exploration -- Discovering biblical literalism : Frank Reade redux -- Confronting "fol-de-rol" : Mark Twain, technocracy, and religion -- Reconstructing biblical history : technocratic explorations, 1899-1910 -- Conclusion : Technocratic exploration's legacy |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 206 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780817319847 978-0-8173-1984-7 |