Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity

by Ian Carter and Ian R. Carter

The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society.

Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? The book's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719059666
• ISBN13: 9780719059667
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"