Titlebook: Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921; Ambivalence and Aspi Andrew Vogel Book 2024 The Editor(s)

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Cynicism and Progress: Gullible Devotion to the Prospect of National Automobility,wonders on display, including motorized mobility. Architect Louis Sullivan’s Whitmanesque Transportation Building represented progress as the aim and product of mobility technologies. Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis,” delivered at the fair, pointed to America’s pursuit of the frontier as

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Trailblazing Modernity: Mapping the Compromises of Mass Mobility,otorcar, supposedly proving that cross-country motor travel was possible, but sixteen years later a military convoy on a propaganda exercise struggled to follow basically the same route. Between these two events, numerous self-proclaimed Trailblazers threw their shoulders into the Good Roads project

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Into the Great Escapism: Vacationing Vagabonds Getting Nowhere Fast,lized on Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey’s popular Vagabond figure, a poetic gypsy escaping the degraded commercial world to find health and happiness in natural settings. Ignoring Hovey and Carman’s anti-industrial themes, Ford’s marketing represented Vagabonds as healthy citizens setting aside the

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The Freedom of Conscription: Tramps Outcast on the Road,characterized this multivalence as representing their outsider situation within conflicted responses to emergent mobilities. Tramp stories by Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Vachel Lindsay, and sociologist Josiah Flynt complicated the stereotype, however. For these writers Tramps face a tough choice, e

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Epilogue: The Same Old Story of the American Road,at trouble reflections on the contemporary landscape. Today many observers and some Americans are beginning to acknowledge that their highway infrastructure is woefully outdated where it’s not literally crumbling, and efforts to rebuild that infrastructure are situated within a matrix of conflicting

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2946-4838 erature to Congressional debate.Historicizes ongoing deliber.This book examines travel narratives as a medium used by the American public to imagine and negotiate new ways to live in, move through, and share national space. Setting an array of archival material, including congressional deliberations

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51179-0road narrative; Good Roads movement; travel writing; Literature and Space; American modernism; automobili

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Andrew VogelReconceptualizes American road narratives to highlight the ambivalences of Modernism.Reframes American automobility by linking canonical literature to Congressional debate.Historicizes ongoing deliber