Gears and God - Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America

Provides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.

About the author

Nathaniel Williams is a lecturer for the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, and serves on the advisory board for the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. He has published articles in American Literature, Utopian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and elsewhere.

Summary

Provides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Williams
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780817319847
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1984-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies