书目名称 | The Omnibus |
副标题 | A Cultural History o |
编辑 | Elizabeth Amann |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/916/915245/915245.mp4 |
概述 | Paints a ‘big picture’ of the cultural impact of the omnibus in the nineteenth century.Examines cultural differences in the representation of urban transit among three cities (Paris, London and Madrid |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
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描述 | .The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms—from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings—and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class andpolitics, as well as genre and narrative technique.. |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | Literature and Cultural Studies; Urban history; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Popular Culture; Transpor |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18708-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-18710-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-18708-7Series ISSN 2634-6494 Series E-ISSN 2634-6508 |
issn_series | 2634-6494 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |