" -Journal of Modern Literature Annual ReviewThis book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature.
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Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Leonardo da Vinci and the Modern Century The Annunciation, 17: The Necromancer, 24; Leda and the Swan, 33 3. Birds with a Human Face The Envious Eye, 44; Our Business Is With Mechanism, 48; The Murder of Birds, 55 4. Wells and The War in the Air 5. Tumult in the Clouds: The Flying Machine and the Great Crusade 6. Lindbergh in 1927: The Response of Poets to the Poem of Fact 7. Origins: Some Versions of Kitty Hawk Hart Crane's "Cape Hatteras," 110; Muriel Rukeyser's "Theory of Flight," 117; Language and Origins, 124 8. The Nearest Paradise: Forms of Flight in the 1930s Redeeming the Time, 131; Saint-Exupery, 139; The Modern Bird Poem, 144 9. The Poetry of Firebombing The Case of James Dickey, 152; The Modern Apocalypse, 162 10. Spaceflight: Three Versions of Manifest Destiny Robert Frost's "Kitty Hawk" 172; Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, 180; Robert A. Heinlein's The Man Who Sold the Moon, 185 11. The Moon Landing and Modern Literature The Rivalry of Poet and Astronaut, 191; The Testimony of Mailer and Bellow, 203 12. Conclusion: Some Texts of the 1970s The Descent, 212; The Ascent, 217 Notes Supplementary Bibliography Index
Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Leonardo da Vinci and the Modern Century The Annunciation, 17: The Necromancer, 24; Leda and the Swan, 33 3. Birds with a Human Face The Envious Eye, 44; Our Business Is With Mechanism, 48; The Murder of Birds, 55 4. Wells and The War in the Air 5. Tumult in the Clouds: The Flying Machine and the Great Crusade 6. Lindbergh in 1927: The Response of Poets to the Poem of Fact 7. Origins: Some Versions of Kitty Hawk Hart Crane's "Cape Hatteras," 110; Muriel Rukeyser's "Theory of Flight," 117; Language and Origins, 124 8. The Nearest Paradise: Forms of Flight in the 1930s Redeeming the Time, 131; Saint-Exupery, 139; The Modern Bird Poem, 144 9. The Poetry of Firebombing The Case of James Dickey, 152; The Modern Apocalypse, 162 10. Spaceflight: Three Versions of Manifest Destiny Robert Frost's "Kitty Hawk" 172; Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, 180; Robert A. Heinlein's The Man Who Sold the Moon, 185 11. The Moon Landing and Modern Literature The Rivalry of Poet and Astronaut, 191; The Testimony of Mailer and Bellow, 203 12. Conclusion: Some Texts of the 1970s The Descent, 212; The Ascent, 217 Notes Supplementary Bibliography Index
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