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Living oil : petroleum culture in the American century /

LeMenager, Stephanie, 1968-

Living oil : petroleum culture in the American century / Steph anie LeMenager. - xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Oxford Studies in American Literary History ; 5 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246) and index.

Introduction: Ultradeep, petroleum culture in the American century - - Origins, spills -- The aesthetics of petroleum -- Petromelancholia -- The petroleum archive.

9780190461973 (paperback: alk. paper)

2013-016997


American literature---- History and criticism.
Ecocriticism.
Petroleum industry and trade-- United States.
Environmental protection in literature.
Environmental policy in literature.
Petroleum in literature.

810.936