Overview
- Paints a ‘big picture’ of the cultural impact of the omnibus in the nineteenth century
- Examines cultural differences in the representation of urban transit among three cities (Paris, London and Madrid)
- Explores differences between representations of the omnibus and those of other modes of public transportation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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About this book
The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms—from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings—and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class andpolitics, as well as genre and narrative technique.
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Book Title: The Omnibus
Book Subtitle: A Cultural History of Urban Transportation
Authors: Elizabeth Amann
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18708-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18707-0Published: 11 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18710-0Due: 11 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18708-7Published: 10 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 368
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Cultural History, Urban History, Popular Culture