List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION- The Age of Verticality: The Closure of the Frontier to the 9/11 Memorial, 1890–2011
CHAPTER 1- “Down Down Down He Shot”: Winsor McCay’s Work, Vertical Collapse, and Time in the Modernist City
CHAPTER 2- Upton Sinclair’s Vertical Infernos: Oil Procurement and Disaster Culture
CHAPTER 3- “The Horizon Was an Illusion”: Flight, Escape, and Imagining Vertical Space in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
CHAPTER 4- Terror/Power: Allen Ginsberg’s Nuclear Poetics and the Space Race
CHAPTER 5- Traversing Vertical Space: Philippe Petit’s Wire-Walk, Danger, and Transformation
CODA- Up and Down Stories
Bibliography
Index