The Garden in the Machine
from Eco Lit Hosted by Eco Lit
In this episode, we use Leo Marx's time machine to travel through the garden -- a natural history spanning the brave new world of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest,' the mines and fields of the Victorian novel, the American wilderness (and our acts and actions there) -- toward a post-pastoral future that is yet to come. Texts discussed in this episode: The Machine in the Garden (Leo Marx) Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
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