Marx karl

1964 · 48678 — 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 green cloth blind-stamped with leaf pattern. In original unclipped $6.75 dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white plates. 392 pages. Small grey inkstain to page 79. Light chipping and minor soil to jacket with one 2'' closed tear and several smaller closed tears to extremities. Spine sunned. Oxford University Press unknown