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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16862 Treadwell, Sophie. Machinal. 1928.
In 1914, while working as a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin , Sophie Treadwell covered the trial against a woman named Leah Alexander, who stood accused of murdering her lover, J. D. Van Baalen. Two years later, writing for the New York American , Treadwell wrote a series of about sixteen articles while covering her second sensational murder case. This time Treadwell described the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Mohr, accused of hiring three men to murder her adulterous husband. Even before the trials began, the public opinion was clearly against these women who dared defied patriarchal notions of what a woman should be. In spite of the evidences proving the abuse suffered by both defendants, Alexander and Mohr, at the hands of their partners, the legal system and the media punished these women for daring to step out of the submissive role traditionally assigned to females. Instead of trying to understand what circumstances had driven Alexander and Mohr to kill
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11538 Cocteau, Jean. The Writing Machine [La Machine à écrire]. 1941.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7773 Burroughs, William. The Soft Machine. 1961.
See our entry on the Nova Trilogy.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7793 Priest, Christopher. The Space Machine. 1976.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14066 Crawford, Robert. Spirit Machines. 1999.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=29556 Koestler, Arthur. The Ghost in the Machine. 1967.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31623 Doty, Mark. Sweet Machine. 1998.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34380 Rice, Elmer. The Adding Machine. 1923.
The Adding Machine (1923), Elmer Rice’s most famous play, is one of the earliest examples of Expressionism in the American theatre. Expressionism emerged in European theatre, especially in Germany, after World War I. Representative examples include Georg Kaiser’s Gas (1918) and Ernst Toller’s Mass and Man (1920), although these plays had been anticipated by such dramas as August Strindberg’s The Spook Sonata (1907) and Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening (1906; composed 1890-91). The earliest examples of Expressionism in America include Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones (1920) and The Hairy Ape (1922), John Howard Lawson’s Roger Bloomer (1923) and Processiona l (1925). Although O’Neill’s two plays and Lawson’s Roger Bloomer preceded The Adding Machine , the last by only a few days, Frank Durham believes that “Rice’s play is purer Expressionism than these others�
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7937 Wells, H. G.. The Time Machine. 1895.
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine: An Invention is one of the earliest works of English Literature to be set in the distant future, and the first to use technology to transport its hero there. Wells began and then abandoned an earlier and very different version of the novel, published in the Science Schools Journal in 1888, entitled “The Chronic Argonauts”. The Time Machine was published by Heinemann in May 1895 after having being serialised in a rather different form in the National Observer from March to June 1894 (cut short by the journal's change of editor) and in the New Review from January to May 1895. The romance (the term that Wells himself preferred for his scientific fantasy stories) begins within a frame-narrative. The Time Traveller is expounding to an audience, composed of the text's unnamed narrator and other dinner-party guests who are named in such terms as “the Medical Man” and “the Provincial Mayor”, his
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11533 Cocteau, Jean. La Machine infernale. 1934.
