@article{1468003,
      recid = {1468003},
      author = {Amann, Elizabeth,},
      title = {The omnibus : a cultural history of urban transportation  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 368 pages).},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468003},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18708-7},
}