Title Living oil : petroleum culture in the American century / Stephanie LeMenager

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Oxford studies in American literary history ; 5 Oxford studies in American literary history ; 5. Contents Introduction: Ultradeep, petroleum culture in the American century -- Origins, spills -- The aesthetics of petroleum -- Petromelancholia -- The petroleum archive Summary Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory, and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the pre-eminent modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called Tough Oil. LeMenager conceives Tough Oil as a bid for continuity with the charismatic lifestyles of the American twentieth century that carries distinct and extreme external costs. She explores the uncomfortable, mixed feelings produced by oil's omnipresence in cultural artifacts such as books, films, hamburgers, and Aspirin tablets. The book makes a strong argument for the region as a vital intellectual frame for the study of fossil fuels, because at the regional level we can better recognize the material effects of petroleum on the day-to-day lives of humans and other, non-human lives. Varied forms of art, too, localize the material impacts of petro-culture. The fluid mobility of oil carries the book outside the United States, for instance to Alberta and Nigeria, emphasizing how both international and domestic resource regions have been mined to produce the idealized modern cultures of the so-called American Century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- History and criticism. Ecocriticism. Petroleum industry and trade -- United States. Environmental protection in literature. Environmental policy in literature. Petroleum in literature. American literature Ecocriticism Environmental policy in literature Environmental protection in literature Petroleum in literature Petroleum industry and trade Literatur Ecocriticism Erdölindustrie Umweltpolitik Erdöl Umweltschutz United States USA Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199347186 0199347182 9780199899432 0199899436

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