Daniel Defoes Railway Journey

Author : Stuart Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910985700
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Defoe's Railway Journey written by Stuart Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric retirees as they travel on every mile of railway track in mainland Britain. Surreal and poignant by turns, Stuart Campbell describes the people they meet and the unwanted adventures that befall them. Campbell is aided and abetted by the ghost of Daniel Defoe, writer, soldier, businessman, and spy who completed his own journey around Great Britain in the 1720s

Author : Stuart Campbell
Publisher : Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910985716
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Defoe's Railway Journey written by Stuart Campbell and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe's Railway Journey describes the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric pensioners as they travel on every mile of railway track in the UK. Surreal and poignant by turns, Stuart Campbell describes the people they meet and the unwanted adventures that befall them. He is aided and abetted by the ghost of Daniel Defoe, writer, soldier, businessman and spy who completed his own journey in the 1720s.

Author : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520282264
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Journey written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.

Author : Jakub Lipski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038859X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Georgian Fiction written by Jakub Lipski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels recreate the Georgian period in order to view its ideologies through the lens of such modern critical theories as performativity, post-colonialism, feminism or visual theories. They also demonstrate the rich repertoire of subgenres of neo-Georgian fiction, ranging from biographical fiction, epistolary novels to magical realism. The included studies of the diverse novelistic conventions used to re-contextualise the Georgian reality reflect the way we see its relevance and relation to the present and trace the indebtedness of the new forms of the contemporary novel to the traditional novelistic genres.

Author : Simon Webb
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473862922
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commuters written by Simon Webb and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace. However, all of this has now changed and many people commute large distances to work, often taking around one hour in each direction. We are now used to being stuck in traffic, crammed onto a train, rushing for connecting trains and searching for parking spaces close to the station or our workplace. Commuters explores both the history and present practice of commuting; examining how it has shaped our cities and given rise to buses, underground trains and suburban railways. Drawing upon both primary sources and modern research, Commuters tells the story of a way of life followed by millions of British workers. With sections on topics such as fictional commuters and the psychology of commuting;this is a book for everybody who has ever had to face that gruelling struggle to get to the office in time.

Author : Great Eastern Railway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway written by Great Eastern Railway and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Nicholas Furbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851967186
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writings on Travel, Discovery and History written by Philip Nicholas Furbank and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851967186
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
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Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Valentine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroism and adventure. Selected and ed. by mrs. Valentine written by Laura Valentine and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: