The 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.