Transportation through the Lens of Literature: The Depiction of Transportation Systems in American Literature from 1800 to the Present in the Form of an Annotated Bibliography

Acknowledgment for PDF version: Shannon Klug ensured the hyperlinks work in the text.Originally published in 1994 and revised in 2005, Transportation through the Lens of Literature is a survey of what American literature has said about transportation. Through the chronological arrangement (1800-1980s), it provides a history of the country's changing and interacting systems. A related website is available at https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/donaldross/transportationliterature.This research has been supported by a grant from the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies

The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction

Winner of the American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for Literary Criticism The Irish Voice in America surveys the fiction written by the Irish in America over the past two hundred and fifty years. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience. Fanning\u27s admirable work is a welcome addition to ethnic studies…. His material is revealing, his insights are informed, his scholarship points to possibilities. -- American Literature A vastly impressive survey of Irish American fiction ranging from the 1760s broadsides of Lawrence Sweeney down all the years to Alice McDermott’s novel Charming Billy (1998). -- American Literature A book indispensable to anyone pursuing the Irish-American genre. -- Boston Irish Reporter The most important book yet published in Irish-American studies…. A magnificent blend of long and diligent research, excellent organization, careful though and judgment, and beautiful writing. -- Lawrence J. McCaffrey, Irish Literary Supplement An accessible yet erudite, largely even-handed, extraordinarily well-written study. -- MELUS Fanning is best at analyzing the combination of passion and reticence that seems to be characteristically Irish. -- Philadelphia Inquirerhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1004/thumbnail.jp

Making technology masculine: men, women, and modern machines in America, 1870-1945

To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain. It also explores how women contested this ascendancy of the male discourse and engineered alternative plots. From the moral gymnasium of the shop floor to the staging grounds of World's Fairs, engineers, inventors, social scientists, activists, and novelists emplotted and questioned technology as our modern male myth. Oldenziel recounts the history of technology - both as intellectual construct and material practice - by analyzing these struggles. Drawing on a broad range of sources, she explains why male machines rather than female fabrics have become the modern markers of technology. She shows how technology developed as a narrative production of modern manliness, allowing women little room for negotiation