The whole machinery : the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946 /

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A familiar story holds that modernization radiates out from metropolitan origins. The whole machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well--from the country to cit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Child, Ben (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens [Georgia] : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Colección:New southern studies.
Temas:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Rural conditions in literature.
Civilization, Modern, in literature.
Conditions rurales dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Southern States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Limning the land
  • Cultures of black agriculture
  • "The true reconstruction of the country" in Iola Leroy and the plantation
  • Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • "Strange vicissitudes": dirt, progress, and the modern
  • Other agrarian
  • Making it old in the New South; or, The leisure agrarians cultivate the folk
  • Disinherited speech acts: the body as archive in labor agrarianism
  • Migratory modernism
  • Station to station: New York City and the returns of the rural
  • Coda. Uneven ground.

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