Philip Mosley

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Telling of the Anthracite (eBook, ePUB)

A Pennsylvania Posthistory

Beschreibung

This is the first book about how the Pennsylvania anthracite story is told in the postindustrial age, and it places this discourse in the broader context of environmental and socioeconomic change. It is a work of regional history that is scholarly in tone yet written in a style accessible to the general reader. It explores the various ways in which anthracite history has been represented and remembered since 1960, the chosen date for the start of the "posthistorical" era coinciding approximately with the Knox mine disaster (1959) and the beginning of the Centralia mine fire (1962-), two cataclysmic and fateful events that symbolize the beginning of the end for widescale deep anthracite mining in northeastern Pennsylvania.

An original work of historical analysis, the book cannot be compared directly to others in the field, since it is believed to be the only one of its kind. Though much anthracite historiography and related cultural activity exists, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the field. The purpose is to draw together the multifarious strands that make up the fabric of anthracite history in the present day. It is aimed a general audience interested in the subject but not necessarily in a specialized way. Moreover, the author shares his passionate interest in the subject.

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Autor

Philip Mosley is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He has been an Associate Editor of Comparative Literature Studies and has served on the board of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. He has written a number of books on literature and on cinema including Anthracite! (2006), an anthology of Pennsylvania coal region plays. Other book publications include a translation of François Jacqmin's Book of the Snow (2010), shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry Prize; The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism (2013); and Resuming Maurice and Other Essays on Writers and Celebrity (2019). He was awarded the 2008 Literary Translation Prize by the French Community of Belgium in recognition of his contribution to the dissemination of Belgian francophone literature.A native of England, who immigrated to the USA in 1988, he attended Norwich School from 1957 to 1965, holds a BA (Honors) in English from the University of Leeds (1968), an MA in European Literature (1970) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (1976), both from the University of East Anglia. In 2000 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Toulouse, France; in 2003-04 was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; and in 2013 was Visiting Professor at the University College of Sint-Lukas, Brussels, Belgium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford Southern
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888190319
• Artikelnr.: 67164355