"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…
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After generations of narrowly based scholarship, railways are now receiving the attention they deserve from scholars across the humanities able to unpack the culturally complex textures and spaces of transport, travel and mobility. This collection of essays makes a most important contribution towards this task. Theoretically informed and broad in historical and thematic scope, this book provide a set of fascinating insights into the intricate relationships between railways, mobilities and the cultures of modernity. -- George Revill, The Open University
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| Introduction |
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PART I RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER |
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Chapter 1 Railroad Blues: Crossing the Tracks of Gender, Class, and Race Inequities in the Blues and Ann Petry's The Street |
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Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad |
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PART II POLITICS AND POETICS |
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Chapter 3 Technology Transfer, the Railway, and Independence in Ousmane Sembene's Les Bouts de bois de Dieu |
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Chapter 4 Futurist Trains: Aesthetics and Subjectivity in the Italian Avant-Garde |
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Chapter 5 Sublime Hieroglyphics: The Pacific Coast Views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins |
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Chapter 6 Modernity, Anxiety, and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809-1879 |
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PART IV NEW CRITICAL TRANSFERS |
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Chapter 7 Mapping Memory through the Railway Network: Reconsidering Freud's Metaphors from the Project for a Scientific Psychology to Beyond the Pleasure Principle |
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Chapter 8 Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels: The Spectacle of Mobility in Zola and Proust |
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PART V ECONOMICS AND POWER |
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Chapter 9 Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfiriato: Gutierrez Najera's "The Streetcar Novel" |
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Chapter 10 Train, Trestle, Ticker: Railroad and Region in Frank Norris's The Octopus and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don |
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| Index |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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Steven D. Spalding is assistant professor of French at Christopher Newport University. Benjamin Fraser is assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Charleston, South Carolina. He is also the author of the monographs Disability Studies and Spanish Culture (Liverpool UP, forthcoming), Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience (Bucknell UP, 2011) and Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain (U North Carolina P, 2010) as well as the editor and translator of Deaf History and Culture in Spain (Gallaudet UP, 2009).
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