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For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define the area of American studies concerned with the connections between scientific and technological advances, and the way society... read more
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THE pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age discovery, and it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination.
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory › Semiotics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
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