Gears and God : technocratic fiction, faith, and empire in Mark Twain's America / Nathaniel Williams.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in American literary realism and naturalismPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780817391867
- 081739186X
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Technology in literature
- Christianity in literature
- Roman américain -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Technologie dans la littérature
- Christianisme dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American fiction
- Christianity in literature
- Technology in literature
- 1800-1899
- 813/.409356 23
- PS377
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Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "This is Religious, and Totally Different"; Part I: Gears; 1. Inventing the Technocratic Exploration Tale: God, Gears, and Empire; 2. Building Imperialists: The Steam Man, "Used Up" Man, and Man in the Moon; 3. Imagining Inventors: Frank Reade and Dime-Novel Technocratic Exploration; Part II: God; 4. Discovering Biblical Literalism: Frank Reade Redux; 5. Confronting "Fol-de-Rol": Mark Twain, Technocracy, and Religion; 6. Reconstructing Biblical History: Technocratic Explorations, 1899-1910.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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