Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel
…normal, the sacred in the profane, then what city could be more holy than Pittsburgh?” If Pittsburghers find the sacred within the profane, then “Paul’s Case” offers a tutorial about how industry can be its own dark god that we must rebel against. Cather drew from her experience among Pittsburgh’s Scots-Irish aristocracy who were committed to stern Calvinism and capitalism—God and the Invisible Hand, equal agents of providence—and in fashioning P…
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