Gears and God : Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America
- List Price: $44.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 3
- Publisher: University of Alabama Press
- Publish date: 07/10/2018
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"A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In this work, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novels--dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles. This genre proliferated during the same cultural moment when evolutionary science was dismantling Americans' prevailing, biblically based understanding of human history"--
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