1. Leo Marx: The Machine in the G
... "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 even further that the pastoral ideal in the general sense has become "a distinctively American theory of society", and has been transformed under the "impact of industrialism" (p.4). The "fresh green breast" of the American continent had held the promise of a "retreat to an oasis of harmony ... plain in the programmatic "rock-foundation", the epigraph (Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"): the peaceful spot, retir...
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