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Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Belenky, Masha

Paperback

Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1526160218
ISBN13: 9781526160218
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Sep 28 2021
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds to interact within the vehicle's close confines. The arrival of the omnibus in the streets of Paris and in the pages of popular literature acted as a motor for a fundamental cultural shift in how people thought about the city, its social life, and its artistic representations. At the intersection of literary criticism and cultural history, Engine of modernity argues that the omnibus was a metaphor through which writers and artists explored evolving social dynamics of class and gender, meditated on the meaning of progress and change, and reflected on one's own literary and artistic practices.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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