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Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Andrew Kopec Abstract This essay considers the politico-aesthetics of infrastructure by focusing on poems that anticipate, justify, and critique internal improvements, from Joel Barlow’s early Republican vision of the Erie and Panama Canals to texts that document the ruin caused by the works Barlow...
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in War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2 Earth-moving operations at the deep cut, near Lockport, New York, during the construction of the Erie Canal, an image included in Colden 1825 . Smithsonian Institute Libraries
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Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 345–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... by the imperative to transform dirt into infrastructure. Tracing the literary history of water infrastructures such as the Panama and Erie Canals, Kopec argues that the two primary aesthetics of infrastructure—the sublime drive toward modernity described by Appel, Anand, and Gupta and the everyday boring hiddenness...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 517–538.
Published: 01 September 2002
... literary nationhood. Likewise, in his Canto XXXI, one of
the Jefferson cantos, Pound emphasizes the promise of America as
greater than that of Europe by juxtaposing the visionary infrastruc-
ture of westward expansion in the Erie Canal and the establishment
of firm U.S. economic policy against the lies...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 June 2008
... discipline.
Reading was a means to success in the new economy. Franklin’s
contribution to this understanding is apparent in a banner carried by
representatives of the Apprentices’ Library of New York in the 1825
parade celebrating the completion of the Erie Canal. Two images...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 391–416.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., canals, water pipelines, riverbeds, and oil fields. Hard-boiled novelists and noir directors might be said to practice what Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star ( 1999 : 34) call “infrastructural inversion”—the “struggle against the tendency of infrastructure to disappear”—or what Lisa Parks ( 2012...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 403–405.
Published: 01 June 2002
... required to address and correct patterns of neglect (22).
In the opening chapter on toxic threats, for example, he considers Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 408–410.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 410–411.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 411–413.
Published: 01 June 2002
... required to address and correct patterns of neglect (22).
In the opening chapter on toxic threats, for example, he considers Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 416–417.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 418–419.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 419–421.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 421–423.
Published: 01 June 2002
... required to address and correct patterns of neglect (22).
In the opening chapter on toxic threats, for example, he considers Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 424–426.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 428–430.
Published: 01 June 2002
... required to address and correct patterns of neglect (22).
In the opening chapter on toxic threats, for example, he considers Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 430–433.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Spring, Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, and the statements
of Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs to present the threat of chemical poisoning
as the modern world’s most insidious leveler—no one escapes the toxic reach.
The discourse on toxicity simultaneously points in two directions. On the one
hand...
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