Volume 44, Number 1 · January 9, 1997
Fall of the Falls
By Henry Allen
The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917
by William Irwin
Pennsylvania State University Press, 276 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Niagara Falls was the orgasm of the nineteenth century, an exaltation celebrated the same way the Big O has been celebrated in the twentieth, and with the same cringe-making heartiness, too—from D.H. Lawrence's Jesus shouting 'I am risen!' in the 1920s to the video-porn wet shots now playing in VCRs everywhere.
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