The Omnibus
A Cultural History of Urban Transportation
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2023
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 11 May 2023
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031187070
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Weight 621 g
- Language English
- Illustrations X, 368 p. Tables, color 461
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Long description:
The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms—from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings—and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class andpolitics, as well as genre and narrative technique.
Table of Contents:
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.
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