1st Edition

Machine and Metaphor The Ethics of Language in American Realism

By Jennifer C. Cook Copyright 2007
128 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems to align itself with science, many have paired the two fields rather unproblematically. But this book demonstrates that many realist writers, from Mark Twain to Stephen Crane, Charles W. Chesnutt to... Read more

 

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Jennifer C. Cook