Omnibus

A Cultural History of Urban Transportation

AvElizabeth Amann

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

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The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-11
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:603 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Antal sidor:368
Upplaga:2023
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031187070

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Elizabeth Amann is Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. She is the author of two books, Importing Madame Bovary: The Politics of Adultery (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut (2015), and the co-editor of three edited volumes, the most recent of which is Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850 (2021). She has written numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Snails on the Omnibus.- Chapter 2: Between Innovation and Regression.- Chapter 3: Comic Commonplaces.- Chapter 4: The Social Experience of the Omnibus.- Chapter 5: The Omnibus as Political Metaphor.- Chapter 6: Streetcars of Desire.- Chapter 7: An Observatory of Poverty.- Chapter 8: Winged Coursers of the Mind.- Chapter 9: Epilogue.