Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946

by Benjamin S Child and Benjamin S. Child

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin's notion of die Moderne, The Whole Machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents move in a contrary direction as well--from the country to the city. In a crucial reconsideration, these figures aren't pulled by or into urban modernity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820356018
• ISBN13: 9780820356013
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"