Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Midterm Review: Terms and Themes

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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