Enduring pastoral : recycling the middle landscape ideal in the Tennessee Valley / / Torben Huus Larsen.
Has the pastoral vision, so central to American history and culture, survived the twentieth century? Enduring Pastoral traces and analyzes the development of the middle landscape by examining the historical construction of a variety of private and public places in the Tennessee Valley. Moving from t...
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| Superior document: | Architecture, technology, culture, 4 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Architecture, technology, culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- The Museum of Appalachia and the Pastoral Simulacrum
- Estates, Trails, and National Parks: Early Examples of the Pastoralized Space
- A “machine-driven Arcadia”2: The TVA and the Transformation of the Tennessee Valley: 1933 to 1942
- A Breakdown of Ideologies: The Tellico Dam and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
- “You don’t get that authenticity at Disney!”: Dollywood, Jack Daniel’s, and the Emergence of the Hyper-Pastoral
- Beyond the Hyper-Pastoral: A Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.