The omnibus : a cultural history of urban transportation / Elizabeth Amann.
2023
TF830 .A66 2023
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Title
The omnibus : a cultural history of urban transportation / Elizabeth Amann.
Author
Amann, Elizabeth, author.
ISBN
9783031187087 (electronic bk.)
3031187083 (electronic bk.)
9783031187070
3031187075
3031187083 (electronic bk.)
9783031187070
3031187075
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 368 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-18708-7 doi
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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.
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Includes index.
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture, 2634-6508
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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.
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.