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Dixie Limited
Joseph R. Millichap
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Description for Dixie Limited
For the people of the South, railroads were both an economic boon and a metaphor for industrialization. In this reconsideration of their part in southern culture, the author explores the depiction of the railroads in southern literature and their impact on southern culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; KCZ; WGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 -- in their emphases on literary appreciation and evaluation in terms of national ... Read more
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 -- in their emphases on literary appreciation and evaluation in terms of national ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813122342
SKU
V9780813122342
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Ref
99-32
About Joseph R. Millichap
Joseph R. Millichap, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, is the author of four books, including Robert Penn Warren, and many essays and articles.
Reviews for Dixie Limited
Effectively portray the ambivalent relationships of technology and literature. -CHARLES REAGAN WILSO.