Engine of modernity : the omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris

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Engine of modernity : the omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris

Title remainder

the omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris

Statement of responsibility

Masha Belenky

Title variation

Omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris

Creator

• Belenky, Masha, 1968-

Subject

• Carriages and carts in literature
• Horse-drawn omnibuses -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century
• Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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• Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)

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• illustrations
• maps
• plates
• facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century Series