Gears and God

Name: Gears and God
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930022Gears and Godhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/gears-and-god-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/490639/499f4d1d-a906-4ac9-b4d6-1c4740f1d3de.jpg?v=638335026252100000626870MXNUniversity of Alabama PressInStock/Ebooks/A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith.In Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twains America, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novelsdime 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.While their heyday occurred in the late 1800s, technocratic adventure novels like Twains A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court inspired later fiction about science and technology. Similar to the science fiction plotlines of writers like Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard, and anticipating the adventures of Tom Swift some decades later, these novels feature Americans using technology to visit and seize control of remote locales, a trait that has led many scholars to view them primarily as protoimperialist narratives. Their legacy, however, is more complicated. As they grew in popularity, such works became as concerned with the preservation of a fraught Anglo-Protestant American identity as they were with spreading that identity across the globe.Many of these novels frequently assert the Bibles authority as a historical source. Collectively, such stories popularized the notion that technology and travel might essentially prove the Bibles veracitya message that continues to be deployed in contemporary debates over intelligent design, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and in reality TV shows that seek historical evidence for biblical events. Williams argues that these fictions performed significant cultural work, and he consolidates evidence from the novels themselves, as well as news articles, sermons, and other sources of the era, outlining and mapping the development of technocratic fiction....927389Gears and God626870https://www.gandhi.com.mx/gears-and-god-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/490639/499f4d1d-a906-4ac9-b4d6-1c4740f1d3de.jpg?v=638335026252100000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20189780817391867_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9780817391867_A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith.In Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twains America, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novelsdime 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.While their heyday occurred in the late 1800s, technocratic adventure novels like Twains A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court inspired later fiction about science and technology. Similar to the science fiction plotlines of writers like Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard, and anticipating the adventures of Tom Swift some decades later, these novels feature Americans using technology to visit and seize control of remote locales, a trait that has led many scholars to view them primarily as protoimperialist narratives. Their legacy, however, is more complicated. As they grew in popularity, such works became as concerned with the preservation of a fraught Anglo-Protestant American identity as they were with spreading that identity across the globe.Many of these novels frequently assert the Bibles authority as a historical source. Collectively, such stories popularized the notion that technology and travel might essentially prove the Bibles veracitya message that continues to be deployed in contemporary debates over intelligent design, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and in reality TV shows that seek historical evidence for biblical events. Williams argues that these fictions performed significant cultural work, and he consolidates evidence from the novels themselves, as well as news articles, sermons, and other sources of the era, outlining and mapping the development of technocratic fiction....9780817391867_University of Alabama Presslibro_electonico_2f458c2a-e8b5-30bb-9e9f-a4b112fc6d3d_9780817391867;9780817391867_9780817391867Nathaniel WilliamsInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-da41468d-3094-4558-a145-bf91dd13653b.epub2018-07-31T00:00:00+00:00University of Alabama Press