Trains, Literature, and Culture :Reading and Writing the Rails

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Steven D. Spalding Michael Velez Benjamin Fraser Roxanna Curto Beth Muellner Alessio Lerro Claudie Massicotte Claudia May Scott Palmer Matt Thompson

Trains, Literature, and Culture :Reading and Writing the Rails

Steven D. Spalding(Author) Michael Velez(Author) Benjamin Fraser(Author) Roxanna Curto(Author) Beth Muellner(Author) Alessio Lerro(Author) Claudie Massicotte(Author) Claudia May(Author) Scott Palmer(Author) Matt Thompson(Author)

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Published: 29 December, 2011

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Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a wide spectrum of time periods and traditions—from English and American to Mexican, West African and European literary cultures. By turns trope, metaphor, and emblem of technological progress, these textual and visual representations of the train serve at times to index racial and gender inequalities, to herald the arrival of a nation’s independence, and at still others to evince the trauma of industrialization. In each instance, the figure of the train emerges as a complex narrative form engaged by artists who were “Reading & Writing the Rails” as a way of assessing the competing discursive investments of cultural modernity.

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Type	Book
ISBN13	9780739165607
ISBN10	0739165607
Number Of Pages	230
Item Weight	549 g
Product Dimensions	162 x 240 x 24 mm
Publisher / Reseller	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format	hardback

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After generations of narrowly based scholarship, railways are now receiving the attention they deserve from scholars across the humanities able to unpack the culturally complex textures and spaces of transport, travel and mobility. This collection of essays makes a most important contribution towards this task. Theoretically informed and broad in historical and thematic scope, this book provide a set of fascinating insights into the intricate relationships between railways, mobilities and the cultures of modernity. -- George Revill, The Open University

Author's Bio

Steven D. Spalding is assistant professor of French at Christopher Newport University.
Benjamin Fraseris assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Charleston, South Carolina. He is also the author of the monographs Disability Studies and Spanish Culture (Liverpool UP, forthcoming), Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience (Bucknell UP, 2011) and Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain (U North Carolina P, 2010) as well as the editor and translator of Deaf History and Culture in Spain (Gallaudet UP, 2009).

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Trains, Literature, and Culture :Reading and Writing the Rails

Steven D. Spalding Michael Velez Benjamin Fraser Roxanna Curto Beth Muellner Alessio Lerro Claudie Massicotte Claudia May Scott Palmer Matt Thompson