LEADER 02875nam 22005413a 450 001 996552359003316 005 20230823004047.0 010 $a1-5261-3860-3 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526138606 035 $a(CKB)5400000000000421 035 $a(ScCtBLL)6713d7b4-607f-400a-933c-df868ade84e8 035 $a(DE-B1597)660055 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526138606 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000000421 100 $a20211214i20202020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEngine of modernity : $eThe omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris /$fMasha Belenky 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cManchester University Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 225 0 $aInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century 311 $a1-5261-3859-X 330 $a"Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris" examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle for mass urban transport which enabled contact across lines of class and gender. A major advancement in urban locomotion, the omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds to interact within the vehicle's close confines. Although the omnibus itself did not actually have an engine, its arrival on 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 for nineteenth-century French writers and artists, the omnibus was much more than a mode of transportation. It became a metaphor through which to explore evolving social dynamics of class and gender, meditate on the meaning of progress and change, and reflect on one's own literary and artistic practices. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 610 $aClass relations. 610 $aGender and urban space. 610 $aModernity. 610 $aNineteenth century. 610 $aOmnibus. 610 $aParis. 610 $aPopular literature. 610 $aPublic transport. 610 $aSocial relations. 610 $aTransportation in literature. 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 676 $a944.36106 700 $aBelenky$b Masha$01430782 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552359003316 996 $aEngine of modernity$93570670 997 $aUNISA