Nathaniel Williams

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.

Produktdetails

• Studies in American Literary R
• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780817319847
• ISBN-10: 0817319840
• Artikelnr.: 50210265

Autorenporträt

Nathaniel Williams is a lecturer for the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, and serves on the advisory board for the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. He has published articles in American Literature, Utopian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and elsewhere.