Research Catalog

Title

Drivetime : literary excursions in automotive consciousness / Lynne Pearce.

Author

Pearce, Lynne.

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016].
• ©2016

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Description

xiii, 216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

What sorts of things do we think about when we're driving - or being driven - in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from 'the motoring century' (1900-2000), paying particular attention to the way in which the practice of driving shapes and structures our thinking. While recent sociological and psychological research has helped explain how drivers are able to think about 'other things' while performing such a complex task, little attention has, as yet, been paid to the form these cognitive and affective journeys take. Pearce uses her close readings of literary texts - ranging from early twentieth-century motoring periodicals, Modernist and inter-war fiction, American 'road-trip' classics, and autobiography - in order to model different types of 'driving-event' and, by extension, the car's use as a means of phenomenological encounter, escape from memory, meditation, problem-solving and daydreaming.

Subject

• Automobiles in literature
• Automobile driving

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-211) and index.

Call Number

JFE 16-10745

ISBN

• 0748690840
• 9780748690848

OCLC

940933055

Author

Pearce, Lynne.

Title

Drivetime : literary excursions in automotive consciousness / Lynne Pearce.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016].

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-211) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10745