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

Contributor(s): Spalding, Steven D, 1971- | Fraser, Benjamin | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2012Description: xiii, 247 p. : illISBN: 9780739165621 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Railroads in literature | Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Literature and technology -- History | Railroads -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 700/.4558 LOC classification: PN56.R22 | T73 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
pt. 1. Race, class, and gender -- pt. 2. Politics and poetics -- pt. 3. Visual cultures -- pt. 4. New critical transfers -- pt. 5. Economics and power.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Race, class, and gender -- pt. 2. Politics and poetics -- pt. 3. Visual cultures -- pt. 4. New critical transfers -- pt. 5. Economics and power.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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