Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails / [edited by] Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spalding, Steven D., 1971-

Fraser, Benjamin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads in literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature and technology--History.

Literature and technology.

Railroads--Social aspects.

Railroads.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Trains, literature, and culture : reading and writing the rails

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

"Trains, 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..."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

PartI 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 May, Claudia 3

Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad / Beth Muellner Muellner, Beth 29

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 Curto, Roxanna 53

Chapter 4 Futurist Trains: Aesthetics and Subjectivity in the Italian Avant-Garde / Alessio Lerro Lerro, Alessio 77

Part III Visual Cultures

Chapter 5 Sublime Hieroglyphics: The Pacific Coast Views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins / Scott Palmer Palmer, Scott 97

Chapter 6 Modernity, Anxiety, and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809-1879 / Matt Thompson Thompson, Matt 119

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 Massicotte, Claudie 159

Chapter 8 Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels: The Spectacle of Mobility in Zola and Proust / Steven D. Spalding Spalding, Steven D. 179

Part V Economics and Power

Chapter 9 Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfiriato: Gutiérrez Nájera's "The Streetcar Novel" / José Eduardo González González, José Eduardo 203

Chapter 10 Train, Trestle, Ticker: Railroad and Region in Frank Norris's The Octopus and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don / Michael Velez Velez, Michael 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739165607

0739165607

9780739165621

0739165623

OCLC:

753632463

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