Masha Belenky

Engine of modernity

The omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France.

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Produktdetails

• Interventions: Rethinking the nineteenth century
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9781526138590
• ISBN-10: 152613859X
• Artikelnr.: 57361011

Autorenporträt

Masha Belenky is Associate Professor of French at the George Washington University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. Modernity in motion: Omnibus literature and popular
culture in nineteenth-century Paris 2. Transitory Tales: reading the
omnibus repertoire Part II 3. Circulation and visibility: Staging class
aboard the omnibus 4. Moral geographies: Women and public transport
Epilogue