Gears and God : Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America / / Nathaniel Williams

• Autore: Williams Nathaniel <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, [2018]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 206 pages) :) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 813.308
• Soggetto topico: Dime novels - History and criticism; Technology in literature; Religion in literature; Literature and technology - United States - History - 19th century; Religion and literature - United States - History - 19th century; American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Gears and God
• ISBN: 0-8173-9186-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813851903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.