Ted Atkinson

Monumental Designs

Infrastructure and the Culture of the Tennessee Valley Authority

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides and intends to showcase critical thinking about how public works can come to be regarded as monumental expressions of national purpose and modern engines of progress defined in terms of perpetual growth and development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781496859259
• ISBN-10: 1496859251
• Artikelnr.: 74435090

Autorenporträt

Ted Atkinson is associate professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is editor of Mississippi Quarterly and author of Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Dam Site More Modern: Developing TVA Monumentality in Visual
Culture
Chapter 2. Documentary Forms: Infrastructural Inevitability in The River
and The Valley of the Tennessee
Chapter 3. Power to the People: The Spectacular Drama of Rural
Electrification
Chapter 4. Back to the Future: Crosscurrents of Development in Elia Kazan’s
Wild River
Chapter 5. From Flood to Long Man: The Rise of the TVA Novel
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index