Dixie Limited: Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance

" 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, Rob

Author: Joseph R. Millichap
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/14/2002
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.32w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780813122342

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2002 pg. 1961

About the Author

Joseph R. Millichap, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, is the author of four books, including Robert Penn Warren.

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