Shifting Gears Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America

Name: Shifting Gears Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
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ISBN: 9780807841679

ISBN-10: 0807841676

ISBN-13: 9780807841679

Edition: 1996

Authors: Cecelia Tichi

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Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to American life saw examples of the new technology on Main Street, on the local railway platform, and in the pages of popular magazines. A major consequence of this technology was its effect on the arts, in particular the literary arts. Three prominent American writers of the timeErnest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and William Carlos Williamsbecame designer-engineers of the word. Tichi reveals their…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.90" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Cecelia Tichi is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is author or editor of eleven books, including Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000, and was awarded the 2009 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association.