The Flying Machine and Modern LiteratureIndiana University Press, 22 лист. 1986 р. - 253 стор. "This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology." —Herbert Sussman |
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Birds with a Human Face | 41 |
The Envious Eye 44 Our Business Is With | 55 |
Wells and The War in the | 63 |
The Flying Machine | 75 |
The Response of Poets to | 97 |
Some Versions of Kitty Hawk | 110 |
Forms of Flight in the 1930s | 131 |
The Poetry of Firebombing | 152 |
Three Versions of Manifest Destiny | 172 |
The Moon Landing and Modern Literature | 191 |
Some Texts of the 1970s | 212 |
| 224 | |
Supplementary Bibliography | 237 |
| 246 | |
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