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The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society.

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"'This is an important, agenda-setting work. The quality of the scholarship is very high'. Dr Ralph Harrington, University of York"

Table of Contents

1. History, modernity, fiction
Part 1: In the Canon
2. Rain, steam and what?
3. Eight great pages: Dombey and Son
4. 'Death by the railroad': Anna Karenina
5. Railway life: La Bete Humaine
6. Accident: new English life?
Part 2: Beyond the Canon
7. Crime on the line
8. Crime on the train
9. 'The lost idea of a train': comic fiction
10. Train Landscape: Eric Ravilious, William Heath Robinson and Rowland Emett
11. Return ticket to postmodernism
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719059667, 978-0719059667
      ISBN10: 0719059666

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society.

      Trade Review
      "'This is an important, agenda-setting work. The quality of the scholarship is very high'. Dr Ralph Harrington, University of York"

      Table of Contents

      1. History, modernity, fiction
      Part 1: In the Canon
      2. Rain, steam and what?
      3. Eight great pages: Dombey and Son
      4. 'Death by the railroad': Anna Karenina
      5. Railway life: La Bete Humaine
      6. Accident: new English life?
      Part 2: Beyond the Canon
      7. Crime on the line
      8. Crime on the train
      9. 'The lost idea of a train': comic fiction
      10. Train Landscape: Eric Ravilious, William Heath Robinson and Rowland Emett
      11. Return ticket to postmodernism
      Index

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