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

by Leo Marx

Book Overview

For over forty years, Leo Marx has studied American culture as a dialectical process, a fruitful contest between conflicting ways of seeing the world and expressing its meaning. The Pilot and the Passenger, a collection of essays spanning Marx's career, explores the meaning of this contest as it makes itself felt in America's literature, technology, and cultural politics.
Marx first examines such major writers as Melville, Thoreau, Mark Twain,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195048768
• ISBN13: 9780195048766
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"