Dixie Limited: Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance

by Joseph R. Millichap

" 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122341
• ISBN13: 9780813122342
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"