The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. -- .
Über den Autor
Ian Carter is Professor of Sociology at University of Auckland
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. History, modernity, fictionnPart 1: In the Canonn2. Rain, steam and what?n3. Eight great pages: Dombey and Sonn4. 'Death by the railroad': Anna Kareninan5. Railway life: La Bete Humainen6. Accident: new English life?nPart 2: Beyond the Canonn7. Crime on the linen8. Crime on the trainn9. 'The lost idea of a train': comic fictionn10. Train Landscape: Eric Ravilious, William Heath Robinson and Rowland Emettn11. Return ticket to postmodernismnIndex
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The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society.
