Main entry:

Freeman, Michael J., 1950-

Title & Author:

Railways and the Victorian imagination / Michal Freeman.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1999.

Description:

vii, 264 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Map of the London and Birmingham Railway on first endpaper.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-259) and index.
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 -- The Victorian railway as 'all the world' -- The Victorian railway as exhibition.

Summary:

"This book offers a new cultural history of the railway age in Britain. As the newly constructed railways transformed the landscape and the economics of nineteenth-century Britain, they transformed the very culture itself, and this richly illustrated account records and illuminates that transformation."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300079702 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300079708 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Railroads History.
Railroads Social aspects History.
Technology and civilization History.
Chemins de fer Histoire.
Technologie et civilisation Histoire.
Chemins de fer.
Histoire.
Civilisation industrielle.
Aspects sociaux.
Civilisations.
Aspects économiques.
Vie sociale.
Railroads.
Railroads Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Spoorwegen.
Cultuur.
Railroads Great Britain History.
Chemins de fer Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Chemins de fer Aspect social 19e siècle.
Technique et civilisation 19e siècle.
Chemins de fer 19e siècle.
Royaume-Uni.

Form/genre:

History.
Illustrated works.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207226
Call No.: HE1041 .F7 1999
Status: Available