Engine of Modernity
The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Seiten
2021
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6021-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6021-8 (ISBN)
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France. -- .
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds to interact within the vehicle’s close confines. The arrival of the omnibus in the streets of Paris and in the pages of popular literature acted as a motor for a fundamental cultural shift in how people thought about the city, its social life, and its artistic representations. At the intersection of literary criticism and cultural history, Engine of modernity argues that the omnibus was a metaphor through which writers and artists explored evolving social dynamics of class and gender, meditated on the meaning of progress and change, and reflected on one’s own literary and artistic practices.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds to interact within the vehicle’s close confines. The arrival of the omnibus in the streets of Paris and in the pages of popular literature acted as a motor for a fundamental cultural shift in how people thought about the city, its social life, and its artistic representations. At the intersection of literary criticism and cultural history, Engine of modernity argues that the omnibus was a metaphor through which writers and artists explored evolving social dynamics of class and gender, meditated on the meaning of progress and change, and reflected on one’s own literary and artistic practices.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
Masha Belenky is Professor of French at the George Washington University -- .
Introduction
Part
1. Modernity in motion: Omnibus literature and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris
2. Transitory Tales: reading the omnibus repertoire
Part II
3. Circulation and visibility: Staging class aboard the omnibus
4. Moral geographies: Women and public transport
Epilogue -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 395 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6021-8 / 1526160218 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6021-8 / 9781526160218 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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