Dixie Limited
Subtitle: railroads, culture, and the southern renaissance
By: Joe R. Millichap.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Southern States -- In literature; Railroads -- Southern States; Railroads in literature; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
Description: "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, Robert Penn Warren, and William Faulkner, Millichap mingles traditional American and Southern studies - in their emphases on literary appreciation and evaluation in terms of national and regional concerns - with contemporary cultural meaning in terms of gender, race, and class.

Millichap juxtaposes Faulkner's semi-autobiographical families with Wolfe's fiction, which represents changing attitudes toward the "Southern Other." Faulkner's later fiction is compared to that of Warren, Welty, and Ellison, and Warren's later poetry moves toward the contemporary post-Southernism of Dave Smith."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139) and index.
Table of contents: title: Railroads, culture, and the southern renaissance; title: William Faulkner's cultural history : railroads in the Sartoris fictions; title: Thomas Wolfe's southern railroads : Look homeward, angel and beyond; title: William Faulkner's cultural geography : railroads in Go down, Moses; title: Robert Penn Warren's modern fictive railroads : All the king's men and others; title: Eudora Welty's real and recreated railroads : Delta wedding; title: Ralph Ellison's railroad passages : before Invisible man and after; title: Robert Penn Warren's  postmodern poetic railroads : ballads and recollections; title: Dave Smith's post-southern railroad poetry : The roundhouse voices; title: Railroads, culture, the southern renaissance, and post-southernism.