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Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails /

"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 pub...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spalding, Steven D., 1971-, Fraser, Benjamin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]
Subjects:
Railroads in literature.
Literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and technology > History.
Railroads > Social aspects.
Literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and technology > History.
Railroads > Social aspects.
Fine arts.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.