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9780815330509

Textual Vehicles

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815330509

  • ISBN10:

    0815330502

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-12-01
  • Publisher: Garland Science
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Table of Contents

Preface xi(4)
Acknowledgments xv
INTRODUCTION. Textual Vehicles: The Automobile and American Literature 3(10)
CHAPTER 1. Romancing the Machine: America Courts the Auto
13(28)
Automobility Before the Automobile
13(6)
The Automobile Age Arrives
19(4)
The Car Comes to Broadway
23(1)
Sinclair Lewis and America's Marriage to the Automobile
24(17)
Free Air
26(8)
A Six-Cylinder Courtship
34(1)
"Speed"
35(6)
CHAPTER 2. From Romantic to Rogue: Satire and the Auto
41(16)
Altering Our Ideals: The Magnificent Ambersons
41(2)
The Car Comes to Main Street
43(8)
Main Street
44(2)
Babbitt
46(1)
Dodsworth
47(4)
Gatsby and "The Arrogance of Wealth"
51(6)
CHAPTER 3. An Intricate Relationship: The Car as Complex Signifier
57(40)
"Discipline Perfectly Embroidered": Ford as Fiction
58(13)
The Flivver King
64(3)
Ragtime
67(2)
John Dos Passos
69(2)
"The Inescapable Destiny": Cars and Rural America
71(26)
Erskine Caldwell
72(4)
John Steinbeck
76(8)
William Faulkner
84(13)
CHAPTER 4. Permanent Union/Impossible Escape: Post-War Literature and Automobility
97(44)
Driving Miss Flannery
99(11)
The Road as Life
110(11)
Jack Kerouac
110(8)
Vladimir Nabokov
118(3)
Rabbit in Traffic
121(10)
Crossing the White Line
131(10)
Arna Bontemps
132(2)
Richard Wright
134(2)
Ralph Ellison
136(1)
E. L. Doctorow
137(4)
CHAPTER 5. "Where We Are in America": Contemporary Representations of Automobility
141(34)
Rotting Birds and Blue Convertibles: Joy Williams's Failed Escapes
142(8)
"Useful Junk": Louise Erdrich's Mystical Vehicles
150(6)
Ann Beattie's Shifting Symbols
156(7)
On the Road--Revisited
163(3)
Harry Crews's Car
166(9)
A Complex and Inescapable Symbol
175(1)
Notes 175(10)
Bibliography 185(10)
Index 195

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