Contents§§Introduction: Rereading The Machine in the Garden§§Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Florian Sedlmeier7§§The Politics of Imaging the Machine in the Garden in Antebellum Factory Literature§§Katja Kanzler42§§Eden Refound(ed): Post Civil War Literary Gardening§§Kirsten Twelbeck58§§The Dinosaur in the Garden: From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park§§Susanne Hamscha77§§Rural Electrification plus Government Power: Leo Marx, the Materialist Dialectic, and Power and the Land§§Marlon Lieber101§§Putting Machines into Gardens: Walter De Maria's Lighning Fields, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the Pastoral Imagination§§Laura Bieger121§§The Machine in the Indigenous Garden: Leslie Marmon Silko's Garden in the Dunes§§Christa Grewe-Volpp148§§Small Town Love on the Big Screen: The Trope of the Machine in the Garden in Hollywood Romantic Comedies§§Klara Stephanie Szlezák167§§The Garden in the Machine: Myth and Symbol in the Digital Age§§Dietmar Meinel190§§The Neoliberal Machine in the Bureaucratic Garden: Pastoral States of Mind in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King§§James Dorson211§§Epilogue: Politics and Culture in The Machine in the Garden§§Alan Trachtenberg231§§Notes on Contributors235§§Index240§