Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction

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CORRIDOR CORRIDOR Media Architectures in American Fiction KATE MARSHALL University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London The publication of this book is made possible in part by support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame. Portions of chapter 1 were previously published as “Dreiser’s Stamping Room: Becoming Media in An American Tragedy,” Novel 46, no. 2 (Summer 2013). Copyright, 2013, Novel, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the present publisher, Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu Portions of chapter 2 were previously published as “Sewer, Furnace, Air Shaft, Media: Modernity behind the Walls in Native Son and Manhattan Transfer,” Studies in American Fiction 37, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 55–80. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Copyright 2010 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Copyright 2013 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401–2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marshall, Kate. Corridor : media architectures in American fiction / Kate Marshall. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7927-0 (hc : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-7928-7 (pb : acid-free paper) 1. American fiction—History and criticism. 2. Space (Architecture) in literature. 3. Architecture, Domestic, in literature. I. Title. PS374.S73M37 2013 813.009´357—dc23 2013010191 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In memory of Melissa Marshall But the gold, the mirrors, the miles of Baroque ornament drove von Göll himself a little daft. Especially those long corridors. . . . “Corridor metaphysics,” is what the French call this condition. Oldtime corridor hepcats will chuckle fondly at descriptions of von Göll, long after running out of film, still dollying with a boobish smile on his face down the golden vistas. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow ...