Engine of modernity : The omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris /

Engine of modernity : The omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Belenky.
Imprint:	[S.l.] : Manchester University Press.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	Undetermined
Subject:	Horse-drawn omnibuses -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century. Carriages and carts in literature. Social conditions. Intellectual life. Horse-drawn omnibuses. Carriages and carts in literature. Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. France -- Paris. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13346315

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ISBN:	9781526138590 152613859X
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Summary:	"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 vehicle of urban transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds to interact within the vehicle's close confines. The arrival of the omnibus in the streets of Paris and in the pages of popular literature acted as a motor for a fundamental cultural shift in how people thought about the city, its social life, and its artistic representations. At the intersection of literary criticism and cultural history, Engine of modernity argues that the omnibus was a metaphor through which writers and artists explored evolving social dynamics of class and gender, meditated on the meaning of progress and change, and reflected on one's own literary and artistic practices." --

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I: Omnibus literature in context. Modernity in motion : omnibus literature and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris
Transitory tales : reading the omnibus repertoire
Part II: Class, gender and locomotion : social dynamics on the omnibus. Circulation and visibility : staging class aboard the omnibus
Moral geographies : women and public transport
Epilogue : the final stop.