TY - BOOK AU - Spalding,Steven D. AU - Fraser,Benjamin TI - Trains, literature, and culture: reading/writing the rails SN - 9780739165621 AV - PN56.R22 T73 2012eb U1 - 700.4558700/.4558 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - Railroads in literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Literature and technology KW - History KW - Railroads KW - Social aspects KW - Littérature KW - 19e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - 20e siècle KW - Littérature et technologie KW - Histoire KW - ART KW - Performance KW - bisacsh KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=433579 ER -