THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

by Leo Marx

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First edition

New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture. Near fine in very good jacket. Item #48678 Marx's MACHINE, expanded from his earlier Harvard thesis, concentrates on the writings of the major literary figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries — Twain, Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thoreau,

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