The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States

by Leo Marx

Book Overview

Leo Marx is one of the major critics of American culture, technology, and literature, and his widely influential The Machine in the Garden (Oxford, 1964) is a classic of American literary criticism. In The Pilot and the Passenger, he brings together essays written over four decades that explore the interplay among literature, technology, and political ideology in the United States. Grouping the essays into three sections, Marx first examines major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019504875X
• ISBN13: 9780195048759
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.6"