1. Leo Marx: The Machine in the G
... conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and Twain (Huckleberry Finn), to "contemporaries" such as Fitzgerald (cf. chapter VI: "Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes"), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and William Faulkner ("The Bear") (p.16). Marx argues ... ...
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