LEADER 03869nam 22006375 450 001 9910726290703321 005 20251009080451.0 010 $a9783031187087 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-18708-7 035 $a(CKB)26748655600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7248793 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7248793 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-18708-7 035 $a(BIP)085653458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7247434 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926748655600041 100 $a20230510d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Omnibus $eA Cultural History of Urban Transportation /$fby Elizabeth Amann 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (376 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,$x2634-6508 311 08$a9783031187070 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Snails on the Omnibus -- Chapter 2: Between Innovation and Regression -- Chapter 3: Comic Commonplaces -- Chapter 4: The Social Experience of the Omnibus -- Chapter 5: The Omnibus as Political Metaphor -- Chapter 6: Streetcars of Desire -- Chapter 7: An Observatory of Poverty -- Chapter 8: Winged Coursers of the Mind -- Chapter 9: Epilogue. 330 $aThe introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation?in principle, they were ?for everyone??they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms?from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings?and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class and politics, as well as genre and narrative technique. Elizabeth Amann is Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. She is the author of two books, Importing Madame Bovary: The Politics of Adultery (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut (2015), and the co-editor of three edited volumes, the most recent of which is Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850 (2021). She has written numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,$x2634-6508 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aCities and towns$xHistory 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aCultural History 606 $aUrban History 606 $aPopular Culture 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aCities and towns$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aUrban History. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 676 $a388.341 676 $a388.341 700 $aAmann$b Elizabeth$01145703 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910726290703321 996 $aThe Omnibus$93386654 997 $aUNINA