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245 00 a| Trains, literature, and culture :b| reading/writing the rails /c| [edited by] Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.;

246 14 a| Trains, literature, and culture :b| reading and writing the rails;

300 a| xiii, 247 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

520 a| "Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more..."--Provided by publisher.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Railroad blues : crossing the tracks of gender, class, and race inequities in the blues and Ann Petry's The street / Claudia May -- Nineteenth-century German women writers on the railroad / Beth Muellner -- Technology transfer, the railway and independence in Ousmane Sembène's Les bouts de bois de Dieu / Roxanna Curto -- Futurist trains : aesthetics and subjectivity in the Italian avant-garde / Alessio Lerro -- Sublime hieroglyphics : the Pacific Coast views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins / Scott Palmer -- Modernity, anxiety, and the development of a popular railway landscape aesthetic, 1809-1879 / Matt Thompson -- Mapping memory through the railway network : reconsidering Freud's metaphors from the Project for a scientific psychology to Beyond the pleasure principle / Claudie Massicotte -- Killer trains and thrilling travels : the spectacle of mobility in Zola and Proust / Steven D. Spalding -- Class and counterfeiting during the Porfiriato : Gutièrrez Nájera's "The streetcar novel" / José Eduardo González -- Train, trestle, ticker : railroad and region in Frank Norris's The octopus and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and The Don / Michael Velez.;

650 0 a| Railroads in literature.=| ^A515183;

650 0 a| Literaturey| 19th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A10333;

650 0 a| Literaturey| 20th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A10333;

650 0 a| Literature and technologyx| History.=| ^A63477;

650 0 a| Railroadsx| Social aspects.=| ^A43483;

700 1 a| Spalding, Steven D.,d| 1971-=| ^A1139188;

700 1 a| Fraser, Benjamin.=| ^A1138503;

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Trains, literature, and culture : reading/writing the rails / [edited by] Steven D. Spalding, Benjamin Fraser.

Other author	Spalding, Steven D., 1971-
Other author	Fraser, Benjamin.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Description	xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Cover image
Subjects	Railroads in literature. Literature--19th century. --History and criticism. Literature--20th century. --History and criticism. Literature and technology--History. Railroads--Social aspects.

Cover title	Trains, literature, and culture : reading and writing the rails
Contents	Railroad blues : crossing the tracks of gender, class, and race inequities in the blues and Ann Petry's The street / Claudia May -- Nineteenth-century German women writers on the railroad / Beth Muellner -- Technology transfer, the railway and independence in Ousmane Sembène's Les bouts de bois de Dieu / Roxanna Curto -- Futurist trains : aesthetics and subjectivity in the Italian avant-garde / Alessio Lerro -- Sublime hieroglyphics : the Pacific Coast views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins / Scott Palmer -- Modernity, anxiety, and the development of a popular railway landscape aesthetic, 1809-1879 / Matt Thompson -- Mapping memory through the railway network : reconsidering Freud's metaphors from the Project for a scientific psychology to Beyond the pleasure principle / Claudie Massicotte -- Killer trains and thrilling travels : the spectacle of mobility in Zola and Proust / Steven D. Spalding -- Class and counterfeiting during the Porfiriato : Gutièrrez Nájera's "The streetcar novel" / José Eduardo González -- Train, trestle, ticker : railroad and region in Frank Norris's The octopus and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and The Don / Michael Velez.
Abstract	"Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more..."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2011044516
ISBN	9780739165607 (hardback)
ISBN	0739165607 (hardback)
ISBN	9780739165621 (electronic)
ISBN	0739165623 (electronic)

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