Black Devil and Iron Angel: The Railway in Nineteenth-century German Realism
- ISBN-10
- 0813214165
- ISBN-13
- 9780813214160
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- German
- Published
- 2005-11
- Publisher
- CUA Press
- Author
- Paul A. Youngman
Description
Using Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's seminal work on the dialectical nature of the Enlightenment as a framework, Youngman makes the original claim that realist authors are a particularly rich source in which to study the intersection of technology and mythology.
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