Mumford, Tate, Eiseley: Watchers in the Night

by Gale H. Carrithers Jr.

Though of diverse backgrounds and training, Mumford, Tate, and Eisley shared remarkably concordant and convincing views of the state of twentieth-century American society. All three considered America to be benighted by a dominant myth -- the myth of the machine, in Mumford's phrase -- that resulted in cultural degeneration. Through an examination of selected works of each critic, Carrithers explains how these writers both identified and fought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807116505
• ISBN13: 9780807116500
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"