Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921

Andrew Vogel is the Honors Program Director and a Professor of English at Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania, where he listens, teaches, and walks the hills in the original homelands of the Lenape peoples.

• 1. Pologue: The Cultural Terrain of America's Modern Road Landscape.- 2. Storied Road: Ambivalence in the Land of American Automobility.- 3. Control and Consent: Contested Sovereignty on America’s Country Roads.- 4. Cynicism and Progress: Gullible Devotion to the Prospect of National Automobility.- 5. Trailblazing Modernity: Mapping the Compromises of Mass Mobility.- 6. Into the Great Escapism: Vacationing Vagabonds Getting Nowhere Fast.- 7. The Freedom of Conscription: Tramps Outcast on the Road.- 8. Epilogue: The Same Old Story of the American Road.