Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails / [edited by] Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739165621
0739165623
9781280659201
1280659203
9786613636133
6613636134

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trains, Literature, and Culture : Reading and Writing the Rails.DDC classification:

700.4558 700/.4558

LOC classification:

PN56.R22 T73 2012eb

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LIT007000 | SOC000000 | SOC015000

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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.

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"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.