The Flying Machine and Modern Literature

Author/Contributor(s):	Goldstein, Laurence
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	11/22/1986
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology. --Herbert Sussman

. . . succeeds admirably, fascinatingly on all counts . . . --American Literature

. . . a landmark in the study of literary and technological history. --NMAH

. . . fascinating . . . a welcome addition to the growing scholarship about the impact of technology on the modern imagination. --Journal of Modern Literature Annual Review

This book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature.