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Gears and God : technocratic fiction, faith, and empire in Mark Twain's America / Nathaniel Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in American literary realism and naturalismPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817391867
  • 081739186X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.409356 23
LOC classification:
  • PS377
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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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