Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921: Ambivalence and Aspiration: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783031511783
ISBN-10: 3031511786
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: XXI, 294 p. 23 illus., 11 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3031511786
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: XXI, 294 p. 23 illus., 11 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1. Pologue: The Cultural Terrain of America's Modern Road Landscape.- 2. Storied Road: Ambivalence in the Land of American Automobility.- 3. Control and Consent: Contested Sovereignty on America’s Country Roads.- 4. Cynicism and Progress: Gullible Devotion to the Prospect of National Automobility.- 5. Trailblazing Modernity: Mapping the Compromises of Mass Mobility.- 6. Into the Great Escapism: Vacationing Vagabonds Getting Nowhere Fast.- 7. The Freedom of Conscription: Tramps Outcast on the Road.- 8. Epilogue: The Same Old Story of the American Road.
Notă biografică
Andrew Vogel is the Honors Program Director and a Professor of English at Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania, where he listens, teaches, and walks the hills in the original homelands of the Lenape peoples.
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“Stories about roads have always been stories about who we are and where we may go. . . Vogel reveals the ambivalence with which powerful actors viewed the installation of automobility on the US landscape. Vogel’s recovery of this ambivalence aids us in the crucial work before us as a nation: composing new stories in which the car is no longer the main character.”
—Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College, USA, author of Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of American Automobility.
“Andrew Vogel’s meticulously researched study of the early development of the US highway system sheds new light on how the American road creates and represents specific kinds of material, cultural, and literary spaces.” —Gary Totten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, Editor-in-Chief of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US, author of Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow.
This book examines travel narratives as a medium used by the American public to imagine and negotiate new ways to live in, move through, and share national space. Setting an array of archival material, including congressional deliberations, into analytical conversation with road stories by Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Upton Sinclair, Emily Post, Zitkala-Ša, Henry Ford and many others, this book reframes our understanding of the origins of American automobility. The evidence gathered here sheds light on the processes by which the defining social infrastructure of the twentieth century came to be enacted, and also exposes the fraught debates and abiding misgivings that continue to roil infrastructure planning today. The insights captured in this study purposefully deepen our attention to questions of land use and collective responsibility at a moment when the ecological and social-justice consequences of American automobility must be thoroughly re-evaluated so that more conscientious mobility futures may be developed.Andrew Vogel is the Honors Program Director and a Professor of English at Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania, where he listens, teaches, and walks the hills in the original homelands of the Lenape peoples.
—Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College, USA, author of Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of American Automobility.
“Andrew Vogel’s meticulously researched study of the early development of the US highway system sheds new light on how the American road creates and represents specific kinds of material, cultural, and literary spaces.” —Gary Totten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, Editor-in-Chief of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US, author of Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow.
This book examines travel narratives as a medium used by the American public to imagine and negotiate new ways to live in, move through, and share national space. Setting an array of archival material, including congressional deliberations, into analytical conversation with road stories by Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Upton Sinclair, Emily Post, Zitkala-Ša, Henry Ford and many others, this book reframes our understanding of the origins of American automobility. The evidence gathered here sheds light on the processes by which the defining social infrastructure of the twentieth century came to be enacted, and also exposes the fraught debates and abiding misgivings that continue to roil infrastructure planning today. The insights captured in this study purposefully deepen our attention to questions of land use and collective responsibility at a moment when the ecological and social-justice consequences of American automobility must be thoroughly re-evaluated so that more conscientious mobility futures may be developed.Andrew Vogel is the Honors Program Director and a Professor of English at Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania, where he listens, teaches, and walks the hills in the original homelands of the Lenape peoples.
Caracteristici
Reconceptualizes American road narratives to highlight the ambivalences of Modernism Reframes American automobility by linking canonical literature to Congressional debate Historicizes ongoing deliberations toward just and sustainable mobility futures