Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2002
Contributors Author: Nicols Fox
Language
Number of Pages
405 pp.
Publisher
Island Press
City
Washington, D.C.
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Chronological Period
ISBN
9781559638609
Annotation
Examines resistance to technology since the Industrial Revolution. Contents: The Kellams and their island The frame breakers Romantic inclinations The mechanized hand Golden bees, plain cottages, and apple trees Signs of life The nature of dissent Going to ground Writing against the machine The clockwork god Looking for Luddites