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100 1 $aNye, David E.,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003616
245 10 $aAmerican technological sublime /$cDavid E. Nye.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axx, 362 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [343]-354) and index.
505 0 $a1. The Sublime -- 2. The American Sublime -- 3. The Railroad: The Dynamic Sublime -- 4. Bridges and Skyscrapers: The Geometrical Sublime -- 5. The Factory: From the Pastoral Mill to the Industrial Sublime -- 6. The Electrical Sublime: The Double of Technology -- 7. The Electric Cityscape: The Unintended Sublime -- 8. Synthesis: The 1939 New York World's Fair -- 9. Atomic Bomb and Apollo XI: New Forms of the Dynamic Sublime -- 10. Rededicating the Statue of Liberty -- 11. The Consumer's Sublime.
520 $aAmerican Technological Sublime is a study of the politics of perception in industrial society. Arranged chronologically, it suggests that the sublime itself has a history - that sublime experiences are emotional configurations that emerge from new social and technological conditions, and that each new configuration to some extent undermines and displaces the older versions.
520 8 $aAfter giving a short history of the sublime as an aesthetic category, Nye describes the reemergence and democratization of the concept in the early nineteenth century as an expression of the American sense of specialness.
650 0 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112687
650 0 $aTechnology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009102967
650 0 $aTechnology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009102901
650 0 $aSublime, The.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129476
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