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A stimulating and impressive book. . . . Its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and its comprehensive account of New York subway texts provides a model for historically and geographically grounded literary research.--Hsuan Hsu, author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteeth-Century American Literature Underground Movements is about how culture, especially poetry, has used the subway in works of art. . . . For the modernists, rather than a higher power the subway enabled one to discover new personal insights. In fact, when I was in law school I used to ride the subway to gather my thoughts for an upcoming paper, so I can empathize with this argument.--Public Transport Chapter 5 makes important arguments about how African-American writers used the subway to pose questions and highlight contradictions regarding class, racism, historical memory, and uneven development. Stalter-Pace is attentive to the subway's paradoxical offer of freedom and agency at the cost of passivity and conformity.--Technology and Culture [A] brilliantly taciturn work. . . . Stalter-Pace does a very good, nuanced job examining how the subway has functioned in American society from conception to the present day.--Journal of American Culture

<p>A stimulating and impressive book.... Its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and its comprehensive account of New York subway texts provides a model for historically and geographically grounded literary research.--Hsuan Hsu, author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteeth-Century American Literature

A stimulating and impressive book. . . . Its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and its comprehensive account of New York subway texts provides a model for historically and geographically grounded literary research.--Hsuan Hsu, author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteeth-Century American Literature Underground Movements is about how culture, especially poetry, has used the subway in works of art. . . . For the modernists, rather than a higher power the subway enabled one to discover new personal insights. In fact, when I was in law school I used to ride the subway to gather my thoughts for an upcoming paper, so I can empathize with this argument.--Public Transport Chapter 5 makes important arguments about how African-American writers used the subway to pose questions and highlight contradictions regarding class, racism, historical memory, and uneven development. Stalter-Pace is attentive to the subway's paradoxical offer of freedom and agency at the cost of passivity and conformity.--Technology and Culture [A] brilliantly taciturn work. . . . Stalter-Pace does a very good, nuanced job examining how the subway has functioned in American society from conception to the present day.--Journal of American Culture

A stimulating and impressive book. . . . Its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and its comprehensive account of New York subway texts provides a model for historically and geographically grounded literary research.--Hsuan Hsu, author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteeth-Century American Literature Underground Movements is about how culture, especially poetry, has used the subway in works of art. . . . For the modernists, rather than a higher power the subway enabled one to discover new personal insights. In fact, when I was in law school I used to ride the subway to gather my thoughts for an upcoming paper, so I can empathize with this argument.--Public Transport Chapter 5 makes important arguments about how African-American writers used the subway to pose questions and highlight contradictions regarding class, racism, historical memory, and uneven development. Stalter-Pace is attentive to the subway's paradoxical offer of freedom and agency at the cost of passivity and conformity.--Technology and Culture [A] brilliantly taciturn work. . . . Stalter-Pace does a very good, nuanced job examining how the subway has functioned in American society from conception to the present day.--Journal of American Culture

A stimulating and impressive book.... Its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and its comprehensive account of New York subway texts provides a model for historically and geographically grounded literary research.--Hsuan Hsu, author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteeth-Century American Literature

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Sunny Stalter-Pace is associate professor of English at Auburn University.

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