Railways and the Victorian Imagination

Name: Railways and the Victorian Imagination
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ISBN: 9780300079708

ISBN-10: 0300079702

ISBN-13: 9780300079708

Edition: 1999

Authors: Michael J. Freeman

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This work is a cultural history of the railway age in Britain. The very centrality of the railway in the literary, artistic and imaginative life of the nation is set side by side with its financial, speculative and economic dimension.

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/10/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.860
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgements


Prologue


Introduction


The devil's mantle


The railway as a cultural metaphor



Death of the Old Order?


Railways and reform


The decay of the bonds between community and territory


The death of nature



The 'March of Intellect'


The age of science and statistics


Railways and geography


Railways and the world of everyday living



Capital


Steam railway capitalism


The wider culture of capital


Centralization and combination of capital


Class and class consciousness


The emancipation of the third class



Urbanization


Creative destruction


Suburbia


Circulation



Territory


The compartmentalization of space


Configurations of territory


Territorial 'clearing'


Commodity flows and territory


Preferential rates


Light railways



Labour


The railway navvies


Railway service



Education and Social Reproduction


'Educating Willy'


Board games and jig-saw puzzles


Sheet music


Toy trains



Representations in Art


Pictorial production and consumption


Pictorial format


Pictorial subject


Epilogue


The Victorian railway as 'all the world'


The Victorian railway as exhibition


Notes


Picture Credits


Index