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<p><p>The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors&#58; Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.<p></p><h3>Library Journal</h3><p>This intriguing though somewhat esoteric book is part of the Studies in Popular Culture series that has, in previous volumes, considered such topics as country music, comic book art, superheroes, and cars in British society. Carter (sociology, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand; editor, Freedom, Power and Political Morality) argues that during the Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian eras the railway epitomized modernity, which he attempts to show by analyzing how rail

Author

Ian R. Carter

Publisher

Manchester ; New York: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719059650

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Sociology