Flying Machine and Modern Literature

<p>This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology. --Herbert Sussman<br /><br /> . . . succeeds admirably fascinatingly on all counts . . . --<i>American Literature</i><br /><br /> . . . a landmark in the study of literary and technological history. --<i>NMAH<br /><br /></i> . . . fascinating . . . a welcome addition to the growing scholarship about the impact of technology on the modern imagination. --<i>Journal of Modern Literature Annual Review<br /><br /></i>This book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature.</p>