TY - BOOK ID - 78646181 TI - Gears and God PY - 2018 SN - 081739186X 9780817391867 9780817319847 0817319840 PB - Tuscaloosa DB - UniCat KW - Dime novels KW - Technology in literature. KW - Religion in literature. KW - Literature and technology KW - Religion and literature KW - American fiction KW - Literature KW - Literature and religion KW - Industry and literature KW - Technology and literature KW - Technology KW - Religion in drama KW - Religion in poetry KW - Fiction KW - Popular literature KW - Penny dreadfuls KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Moral and religious aspects KW - Twain, Mark, KW - Reade, Frank, Jr. (Fictitious character) KW - Twain, Mark KW - Tvėn, Mark KW - Tuėĭn, Mark KW - Tuwayn, Mārk KW - Twayn, Mārk KW - Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo KW - Tven, M. KW - Touen, Makū KW - Twain, Marek KW - Make Tuwen KW - Tuwen, Make KW - Make Teviin KW - Твен, Марк KW - Touain, Mark KW - טבןַ, מרק, KW - טוויין, מארק, KW - טוויין, מרק, KW - טווין, מארק, KW - טווין, מרק, KW - טווען, מארק, KW - טוין, מרק, KW - טװען, מארק, KW - טװײן, מארק, KW - 馬克吐温, KW - Tuvāyn, Mārk KW - Tvāyn, Mārk KW - تواين، مارک KW - Clemens, Samuel Langhorne KW - Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius KW - Conte, Louis de KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78646181 AB - "A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In this work, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novels--dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles. This genre proliferated during the same cultural moment when evolutionary science was dismantling Americans' prevailing, biblically based understanding of human history"-- ER -