Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921
Produktnummer:
1861880a05b11b41d6992112fe8c3eb703
Autor: | Vogel, Andrew |
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Themengebiete: | American modernism Good Roads movement Literature and Space automobility road narrative travel writing |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 10.05.2024 |
EAN: | 9783031511783 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 294 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
Untertitel: | Ambivalence and Aspiration |
Produktinformationen "Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921"
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.

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