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.