Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921

Ambivalence and Aspiration

AvAndrew Vogel

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:411 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031511813

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.