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Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America

Part of the Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism series
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Provides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith.

In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.

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University of Alabama Press
081739186X / 9780817391867
eBook (EPUB)
813.409
31/07/2018
English
216 pages
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