Railways and Culture in Britain - The Epitome of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Ian Carter is Professor of Sociology at University of Auckland Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Ian Carter, Ian Dr Carter, Carter Ian
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780719059667
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5966-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture (Pa; Studies in Popular Culture; Studies in Popular Culture (Pa
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; History: specific events & topics, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, History: specific events and topics, Railway technology, engineering and trades, Railway Technology, Engineering & Trades