Railways and culture in Britain : the epitome of modernity
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. -- .
Print Book, English, 2001
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001
XI, 338 p. ill., részben térk. 24 cm
9780719059667, 0719059666
1015097755
1. History, modernity, fictionPart 1: In the Canon2. Rain, steam and what?3. Eight great pages: Dombey and Son4. 'Death by the railroad': Anna Karenina5. Railway life: La Bete Humaine6. Accident: new English life?Part 2: Beyond the Canon7. Crime on the line8. Crime on the train9. 'The lost idea of a train': comic fiction10. Train Landscape: Eric Ravilious, William Heath Robinson and Rowland Emett11. Return ticket to postmodernismIndex -- .