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Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails / [edited by] Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.
- Title
- Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails / [edited by] Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
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- Description
- xiii, 247 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more..."--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Trains, literature, and culture : reading and writing the rails
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Railroad blues : crossing the tracks of gender, class, and race inequities in the blues and Ann Petry's The street / Claudia May -- Nineteenth-century German women writers on the railroad / Beth Muellner -- Technology transfer, the railway and independence in Ousmane Sembène's Les bouts de bois de Dieu / Roxanna Curto -- Futurist trains : aesthetics and subjectivity in the Italian avant-garde / Alessio Lerro -- Sublime hieroglyphics : the Pacific Coast views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins / Scott Palmer -- Modernity, anxiety, and the development of a popular railway landscape aesthetic, 1809-1879 / Matt Thompson -- Mapping memory through the railway network : reconsidering Freud's metaphors from the Project for a scientific psychology to Beyond the pleasure principle / Claudie Massicotte -- Killer trains and thrilling travels : the spectacle of mobility in Zola and Proust / Steven D. Spalding -- Class and counterfeiting during the Porfiriato : Gutièrrez Nájera's "The streetcar novel" / José Eduardo González -- Train, trestle, ticker : railroad and region in Frank Norris's The octopus and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and The Don / Michael Velez.
- ISBN
- 9780739165607 (hardback)
- 0739165607 (hardback)
- 9780739165621 (electronic)
- 0739165623 (electronic)
- LCCN
- ^^2011044516
- OCLC
- 753632463
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library