TERMS:
Icarus
Babel
Prospero
The New Atlantis
Monticello
The Age of Reason
"Report on Manufactures"
F. C. Lowell
"The Celestial Railroad"
The Market Revolution
"What hath God wrought?"
Vicksburg
The Eads Bridge
"The Brick Moon"
Haymarket
Prince Cabano
Chicago, 1893
"The Dynamo and the Virgin"
Modern Electrics
The Armory Show
"Scientifiction"
RADAR
Fritz Lange
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
THEMES:
Religion, science, and technology in American culture from the age of Deism to the age of Social Darwinism.
Differing portrayals of race, class, and gender in Donnelly's Caesar's Column, Gernsback's Ralph 124C4+ and Fritz Lange's Metropolis (consider our discussion of both the German and U.S. versions of this film).
The Natural and the Technological Sublime in nineteenth century American culture.
The "consumer's sublime" as described by David E. Nye and depicted in the work of Gernsback and Donnelly.
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