"The Passing of Niagara"
| Year for Search |
1897
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| Secondary Title |
The Independent
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| Annotation |
Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country. |
| Volume / Edition |
49.2556
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| Pagination |
3-4
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| Published Date |
November 25, 1897 |
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| Full Text |
1897 Davis, Rebecca [Blaine] Harding (1831-1910). “The Passing of Niagara.” The Independent 49.2556 (November 25, 1897): 3-4. TxU Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country. On the female author, see Jean Pfaelzer, Parlor Radical Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. |
| Info Notes |
On the author, see Jean Pfaelzer, Parlor Radical Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. |
| Author Note |
Female author (1831-1910). |
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