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Book SynopsisTrains, 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...
Trade ReviewAfter generations of narrowly based scholarship, railways are now receiving the attention they deserve from scholars across the humanities able to unpack the culturally complex textures and spaces of transport, travel and mobility. This collection of essays makes a most important contribution towards this task. Theoretically informed and broad in historical and thematic scope, this book provide a set of fascinating insights into the intricate relationships between railways, mobilities and the cultures of modernity. -- George Revill, The Open University
Table of ContentsIntroduction Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding Part I. Race, Class, and Gender Chapter 1: Railroad Blues: Crossing the Tracks of Gender, Class and Race Inequities in the Blues and Ann Petry’s The Street Claudia May Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad Beth Muellner Part II. Politics and Poetics Chapter 3: Technology Transfer, the Railway and Independence in Ousmane Sembène’s Les Bouts de bois de Dieu Roxanna Curto Chapter 4: Futurist Trains: Aesthetics and Subjectivity in the Italian Avant-Garde Alessio Lerro Part III. Visual Cultures Chapter 5: Sublime Hieroglyphics: The Pacific Coast Views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins Scott Palmer Chapter 6: Modernity, Anxiety and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809-1879 Matt Thompson Part IV. New Critical Transfers Chapter 7: Mapping Memory Through the Railway Network: Reconsidering Freud’s Metaphors from the Project for a Scientific Psychology to Beyond the Pleasure Principle Claudie Massicotte Chapter 8: Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels: the Spectacle of Mobility in Zola and Proust Steven D. Spalding Part V. Economics and Power Chapter : Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfiriato: Gutiérrez Nájera’s “The Streetcar Novel” José Eduardo González Chapter 10: 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
