Living oil : petroleum culture in the American century /
'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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history ;
5. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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 preeminent modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called Tough Oil. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199899432 0199899436 9780199347186 0199347182 9781306114080 130611408X |