The Resource The whole machinery : the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946, Benjamin S. Child
The whole machinery : the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946, Benjamin S. Child
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- Summary
- A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin's notion of die Moderne, The Whole Machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well-from the country to the city. In a crucial reconsideration, these figures aren't pulled by or into urban modernity so much as they bring alternate-and transformative-iterations of the modern to the urban world. Upending the U.S. South's reputation as either retrograde or unresponsive to modernity, Benjamin S. Child shows how the effects of national and transnational exchange, emergent technologies, and industrialization animate environments and bodies associated with, or performing, versions of the rural. To this end, he also exposes the shadow side of the cosmopolitan modern by investigating the rural sources-the laboring bodies and raw materials-that made such urban spaces possible, thus taking a broader survey of landscapes created by the Atlantic world's histories of uneven development. In this investigation of the rural modern that considers multiple media and forms of technology, Child's sources range widely, encompassing a spectrum of texts and their networks of transmission, reception, and signification. These include novels, poems, and short stories but also radio broadcasts, sound recordings, political pamphlets, photographs, magazine articles, newspaper reports, and agricultural bulletins. Folding such expressive artifacts into his larger arguments, Child considers how they both reflect and form modern(ist) culture. The result is a geography of southern modernism that includes an unexpected combination of landmarks, both actual and imagined: Twisted Oak, Arkansas, and Tukabahchee County, Alabama; Manhattan, Manchester, and Moscow; Tuskegee and Gobbler's Knob, North Carolina
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9780820356006
- Label
- The whole machinery : the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946
- Title
- The whole machinery
- Title remainder
- the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946
- Statement of responsibility
- Benjamin S. Child
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin's notion of die Moderne, The Whole Machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well-from the country to the city. In a crucial reconsideration, these figures aren't pulled by or into urban modernity so much as they bring alternate-and transformative-iterations of the modern to the urban world. Upending the U.S. South's reputation as either retrograde or unresponsive to modernity, Benjamin S. Child shows how the effects of national and transnational exchange, emergent technologies, and industrialization animate environments and bodies associated with, or performing, versions of the rural. To this end, he also exposes the shadow side of the cosmopolitan modern by investigating the rural sources-the laboring bodies and raw materials-that made such urban spaces possible, thus taking a broader survey of landscapes created by the Atlantic world's histories of uneven development. In this investigation of the rural modern that considers multiple media and forms of technology, Child's sources range widely, encompassing a spectrum of texts and their networks of transmission, reception, and signification. These include novels, poems, and short stories but also radio broadcasts, sound recordings, political pamphlets, photographs, magazine articles, newspaper reports, and agricultural bulletins. Folding such expressive artifacts into his larger arguments, Child considers how they both reflect and form modern(ist) culture. The result is a geography of southern modernism that includes an unexpected combination of landmarks, both actual and imagined: Twisted Oak, Arkansas, and Tukabahchee County, Alabama; Manhattan, Manchester, and Moscow; Tuskegee and Gobbler's Knob, North Carolina
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- Midwest
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- Child, Ben
- Dewey number
- 810.9/975
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- The new southern studies
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- American literature
- Rural conditions in literature
- Civilization, Modern, in literature
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The whole machinery : the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946, Benjamin S. Child
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- Control code
- MWT12670342
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780820356006
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
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- Publisher number
- MWT12670342
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- The whole machinery : the rural modern in cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946, Benjamin S. Child
- Link
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- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
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- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12670342
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780820356006
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT12670342
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 12670342
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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