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Title:

Caverns of night : coal mines in art, literature, and film / edited by William B. Thesing.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

vii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Coal mines and mining in art.
Arts, Modern--19th century.
Arts, Modern--20th century

Other Authors:

Thesing, William B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-270) and index.

Contents:

The aesthetics of coal : representing soot, dust, and smoke in nineteenth-century Britain / Martin A. Danahay -- Demonized coal miners and domineering muses in Sidney H. Sime's fantastic illustrations / William B. Thesing -- Poetry, politics, and coal mines in Victorian England : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Joseph Skipsey, and Thomas Llewelyn Thomas / William B. Thesing and Ted Wojtasik -- Old Hell shaft : Richard Hengist Horne and the coal mines / Alex J. Tuss -- Social reform through sensationalized realism : G.W.M. Reynolds's "The Rattlesnake's history" / Janet L. Grose -- Anticommunity and chaos : the role of free indirect discourse in Zola's Germinal / Thomas E. Mussio -- Gripped by the ultimate master : mining, manhood, and morbidity in D.H. Lawrence's "Odour of chrysanthemums" / Peter Balbert -- W.H. Auden and the homoerotics of the 1930s documentary / Marsha Bryant -- The language of this graveyard : politicizing the poetic in Tony Harrison's "v." / Ed Madden -- The Molly Maguires in the valley of fear / Robert E. Morsberger -- The Molly Maguires and the continued influence of nineteenth-century labor fiction / Maurice Collins -- Openness to experience in Stephen Crane's "In the depth of a coal mine" / Patrick K. Dooley -- Coal mining, literature, and the naturalistic motif : an overview / Tom Frazier -- Men are that way : the short stories of E.S. Johnson / Daiva Markelis -- Proletarian disaster and social change : representations of Raymond Williams in Vicki Covington's Night ride home / Mary Roche Annas -- Out of the dark and into the light : violence and vision in James Lee Burke / Theresa R. Mooney -- Multinarratives and multiculture in Appalachia : Denise Giardina's Storming heaven and the West Virginia mine war of 1920-1921 / Clarence Wolfshohl -- The many autobiographies of a coal miner's daughter / Alessandro Portelli -- Blackfaced rednecks : the problem of backcountry whites as victims in John Sayle's Matewan / Ina Rae Hark.

ISBN:

9781570033520 (cloth : alk. paper)
1570033528 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43864166

LCCN:

00008952

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)