Dixie Limited : railroads, culture, and the southern renaissance /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Millichap, Joseph R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2002.
Subjects:
Since 1865
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Railroads > Southern States.
Railroads in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Railroads.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
Southern States > In literature.
États-Unis (Sud) > Vie intellectuelle > 1865-
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la littérature.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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