Railways and Culture in Britain - 9780719059667
Un libro in lingua di Ian Carter edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
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The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Railways and Culture in Britain
- Sottotitolo: The Epitome of Modernity
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Ian Carter
- Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
- Collana: Palgrave Macmillan (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Novembre '01
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : English literature 19th century History and criticism Railroad travel in literature English literature 20th century History and criticism
- Pagine: 256
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0719059666
- EAN-13: 9780719059667