The omnibus : a cultural history of urban transportation / Elizabeth Amann.
Amann, Elizabeth, author.
2023
TF830 .A66 2023
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title The omnibus : a cultural history of urban transportation / Elizabeth Amann.
Author Amann, Elizabeth, author.
ISBN 9783031187087 (electronic bk.)
3031187083 (electronic bk.)
9783031187070
3031187075
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18708-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 368 pages).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-18708-7 doi
Call Number TF830 .A66 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 388.341
Summary 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 and politics, as well as genre and narrative technique.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 20, 2023).
Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture, 2634-6508
Available in Other Form Omnibus
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
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.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export