Engine of Modernity : The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris Hardback
by Masha Belenky
Part of the Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century series
Hardback
Description
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. -- .
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:14/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526138590
Other Formats
- Paperback / softback from £21.00
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:14/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526138590
