Engine of Modernity - The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France.

List of contents

Introduction
Part
1. Modernity in motion: Omnibus literature and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris
2. Transitory Tales: reading the omnibus repertoire
Part II
3. Circulation and visibility: Staging class aboard the omnibus
4. Moral geographies: Women and public transport
Epilogue

About the author

Masha Belenky is Associate Professor of French at the George Washington University

Summary

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Masha Belenky, Belenky Masha Masha
• Assisted by: Andrew Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781526138590
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3859-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century; Interventions: Rethinking the
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, France, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Transport industries, Paris (City), Road Transport Industries