Masha Belenky

Engine of modernity

The omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris

• Broschiertes 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: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781526160218
• ISBN-10: 1526160218
• Artikelnr.: 61111099

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