first edition
1964 · New York
by Marx, Leo
New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition of Marx's classic critical study of the sentimental and utopian uses of the pastoral in American literature and culture. Marx's MACHINE, expanded from his earlier Harvard thesis, concentrates on the writings of the major literary figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries — Twain, Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thoreau, Fitzgerald — as well as the political uses to which an inherited European pastoral idyllic ideal was put by Thomas Jefferson, among other hypocrites and gentlemen farmers. A foundational work in the field of American Studies. 8'' x 5.25''. Original (truncated)