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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Masha Belenky, Belenky Masha Masha
• Collaboration: Andrew Smith (Editeur)
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781526138590
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3859-0
• Pages: 200
• Thèmes: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century; Interventions: Rethinking the
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée