Railways and culture in Britain: The epitome of modernity (Studies in Popular Culture MUP)
Railways and culture in Britain: The epitome of modernity (Studies in Popular Culture MUP)
Railways and culture in Britain: The epitome of modernity (Studies in Popular Culture MUP)
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<strong>Railways</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>culture</strong> <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>epitome</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>modernity</strong> (<strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Popular</strong> <strong>Culture</strong> <strong>MUP</strong>) (Ian Carter) <strong>The</strong> n<strong>in</strong>eteenth-century s steam railway epitomised <strong>modernity</strong> s relentlessly onrush<strong>in</strong>g advance. In <strong>Railways</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>culture</strong> <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong> Ian Carter delves <strong>in</strong>to the cultural impact <strong>of</strong> tra<strong>in</strong> technology, <strong>and</strong> how this was represented <strong>in</strong> British society.Why, for example, did Brita<strong>in</strong> possess no great railway novel? <strong>The</strong> book s first half tests that assertion by compar<strong>in</strong>g fiction <strong>and</strong> images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French <strong>and</strong> Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. <strong>The</strong> second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is th<strong>in</strong>, then this does not mean that all British <strong>culture</strong> ignored this revolutionary artefact. Detailed discussions <strong>of</strong> comic fiction, crime fiction <strong>and</strong> cartoons reveal a popular fasc<strong>in</strong>ation with railways tumbl<strong>in</strong>g from vast (<strong>and</strong> hitherto unexplored) stores <strong>of</strong> critically overlooked genres. A f<strong>in</strong>al chapter contemplates cultural correlations <strong>of</strong> the steam railway s eclipse. If this was the <strong>epitome</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>modernity</strong>, then does the triumph <strong>of</strong> diesel <strong>and</strong> electric tra<strong>in</strong>s, <strong>of</strong> cars <strong>and</strong> planes, signal a decisive shift to post<strong>modernity</strong>?This book will be required read<strong>in</strong>g for academics <strong>and</strong> students <strong>in</strong> n<strong>in</strong>eteenth <strong>and</strong> twentieth-century British social history, as well as cultural studies <strong>and</strong> sociology. It<br />
will also be <strong>of</strong> great <strong>in</strong>terest to tra<strong>in</strong> enthusiasts <strong>and</strong> crime fiction fans.<br />
<strong>Railways</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>culture</strong> <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>epitome</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>modernity</strong><br />
(<strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Popular</strong> <strong>Culture</strong> <strong>MUP</strong>)
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Author : Ian Carter<br />
Pages : 352 pages<br />
● Publisher : Manchester University Press 2001-<br />
09-06<br />
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Language : English<br />
ISBN-10 : 0719059666<br />
ISBN-13 : 9780719059667
<strong>Railways</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>culture</strong> <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>epitome</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>modernity</strong> (<strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Popular</strong> <strong>Culture</strong> <strong>MUP</strong>)
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