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Item Details
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RAILWAYS AND CULTURE IN BRITAIN
THE EPITOME OF MODERNITY |
| By: |
Ian Carter |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719059658 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719059650 |
| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 September, 2001 |
| Series: |
Studies in Popular Culture |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
This work shows how the 19th-century's steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons are included. |
| Synopsis: |
The 19th-century's steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In this work Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why for example did Britain possess no great railway novel? The work's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) against selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does not mean that all British culture ignored this revolutionary artefact. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres. A final chapter contemplates cultural correlations of the steam railway's eclipse. If this was the epitome of modernity, then does the triumph of diesel and electric trains, of cars and planes, signal a decisive shift to postmodernity? |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
| Returns: |
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