Unnatural Formations: Volume 69

by Kathryn R. Kent, Siobhan B. Somerville, Bernice L. Hausman, et al.

"Nothing typifies the American sense of identity more," Mark Seltzer writes at the beginning of his 1992 book Bodies and Machines , "than the love of nature (nature's nation) except perhaps the love of technology (made in America)." The term "nature," along with a few others--"culture," "technology," "nation"--has been of central importance in American literary and cultural studies throughout the past century. The essays in his special issue of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822364476
• ISBN13: 9780822364474
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages