Flying Machine and Modern Literature

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