Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails /
Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails /
[edited by] Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Trains, Literature and Culture -- Part I: Race, Class, and Gender -- Chapter 01. Railroad Blues; Chapter 02. Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad -- Part II: Politics and Poetics -- Chapter 03. Technology Transfer, the Railway, and Independence in Ousmane Sembène's Les Bouts de bois de Dieu -- Chapter 04. Futurist Trains -- Part III: Visual Cultures -- Chapter 05. Sublime Hieroglyphics -- Chapter 06. Modernity, Anxiety, and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809-1879 -- Part IV: New Critical Transfers -- Chapter 07. Mapping Memory through the Railway Network -- Chapter 08. Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels -- Part V: Economics and Power -- Chapter 09. Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfi riato -- Chapter 10. Train, Trestle, Ticker.
"Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more ..."--Provided by publisher.
English.
9780739165621 (electronic bk.) 0739165623 (electronic bk.) 9781280659201 (MyiLibrary) 1280659203 (MyiLibrary) (hardback) (hardback) 9786613636133 6613636134
363613 MIL
1800-1999
Railroads in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and technology--History.
Railroads--Social aspects.
Littérature--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Littérature--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Littérature et technologie--Histoire.
ART--Performance.
ART--Reference.
Literature, Modern.
Literature and technology.
Railroads in literature.
Railroads--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PN56.R22 / T73 2012eb
700.4558 700/.4558
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Trains, Literature and Culture -- Part I: Race, Class, and Gender -- Chapter 01. Railroad Blues; Chapter 02. Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad -- Part II: Politics and Poetics -- Chapter 03. Technology Transfer, the Railway, and Independence in Ousmane Sembène's Les Bouts de bois de Dieu -- Chapter 04. Futurist Trains -- Part III: Visual Cultures -- Chapter 05. Sublime Hieroglyphics -- Chapter 06. Modernity, Anxiety, and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809-1879 -- Part IV: New Critical Transfers -- Chapter 07. Mapping Memory through the Railway Network -- Chapter 08. Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels -- Part V: Economics and Power -- Chapter 09. Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfi riato -- Chapter 10. Train, Trestle, Ticker.
"Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more ..."--Provided by publisher.
English.
9780739165621 (electronic bk.) 0739165623 (electronic bk.) 9781280659201 (MyiLibrary) 1280659203 (MyiLibrary) (hardback) (hardback) 9786613636133 6613636134
363613 MIL
1800-1999
Railroads in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and technology--History.
Railroads--Social aspects.
Littérature--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Littérature--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Littérature et technologie--Histoire.
ART--Performance.
ART--Reference.
Literature, Modern.
Literature and technology.
Railroads in literature.
Railroads--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PN56.R22 / T73 2012eb
700.4558 700/.4558