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Dixie Limited : Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance / Joe R. Millichap.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millichap, Joseph R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads in literature.
- Railroads--Southern States.
- Railroads.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the South, railroads have two meanings: they are an economic force that can sustain a town and they are a metaphor for the process of southern industrialization. Recognizing this duality, Joseph Millichap's Dixie Limited is a detailed reading of the complex and often ambivalent relationships among technology, culture, and literature that railroads represent in selected writers and works of the Southern Renaissance. Tackling such Southern Renaissance giants as Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, and William Faulkner, Millichap mingles traditional American and Southern studies --
- Contents:
- Railroads, culture, and the southern renaissance
- William Faulkner's cultural history : railroads in the Sartoris fictions
- Thomas Wolfe's southern railroads : Look homeward, angel and beyond
- William Faulkner's cultural geography : railroads in Go down, Moses
- Robert Penn Warren's modern fictive railroads : All the king's men and others
- Eudora Welty's real and recreated railroads : Delta wedding
- Ralph Ellison's railroad passages : before Invisible man and after
- Robert Penn Warren's postmodern poetic railroads : ballads and recollections
- Dave Smith's post-southern railroad poetry : The roundhouse voices
- Railroads, culture, the southern renaissance, and post-southernism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813193731
- 0813193737
- 9780813159157
- 0813159156
- 9780813170435
- 0813170435
- OCLC:
- 65338683
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