Talk:The Machine in the Garden

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 * Background
 * Afterward also published in The Massachusetts Review (as source)
 * Dissertation and lectures formed the foundation 15 years prior to writing the book. Initially based on an "exploratory study of literary responses to the onset of industrialism in America"(367)
 * Wrote the book while taking a year off (408)
 * Synopsis
 * Fix links and refs
 * Analysis
 * Noble, David W. (2002). Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 1452906033.
 * Segal, Howard P. (1994). Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0870238825.
 * Reception
 * Reviews
 * Paul Levine: precedents for "this line of inquiry"—Parrington, Smith, Lewis, Morton, White; fails to examine 17th century American authors; "overlong and underfed"
 * David E. Smith: "histories of an idea"; Jefferson; "society of the middle landscape"
 * Legacy
 * Last major work from the myth and symbol school of American Studies (Noble 2002])
 * 50th anniversary symposium