Author: Francis COGHLANPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Iron Road Book and Railway Companion; or, a Journey from London to Birmingham, containing an account of the towns, villages, mansions,&c. on each side of the line ... Illustrated with maps of the entire line
Author: Francis COGHLANThe Iron Road Book and Railway Companion, Or, A Journey from London to Birmingham
Author: Francis CoghlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The iron road book and railway companion
Author: Francis CoghlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830–1865
Author: Kristen PondPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000990087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830-1865 explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the industrial revolution, transportation technologies, and globalization. While studies of nineteenth-century Britain tend to trace the rise of an aloof cosmopolitanism and distancing narrative strategies, this volume calls attention to the personalizing impulse in nineteenth-century literary form, investigating the deeply personal reflections on individual and national identities. In her book, Dr. Pond leads the reader through homes of the urban poor, wandering the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, loitering in suburban neighborhoods, riding the railway, and touring a country estate. Readers will experience how the ordinary can be enchanting, and how the mundane can be unexpected, discovering a new way of thinking about strangers and their influence on our lives. Through an examination of the short and long fictional forms of Martineau, Dickens, Brontë, Gaskell, and Braddon, this study locates the figure of the stranger as a powerful topos in the story Victorian literature and the ethics of social relations. This book will be ideal for those seeking to understand the dynamics of the stranger in Victorian fiction as a figure for understanding the changing dynamics of social relations in England in the early nineteenth century.
Moving Forward, Looking Back
Author: Sarah M. MisemerPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838757650
Category : Argentine literature
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Many critical shifts in concepts of time and society's consciousness of modernity were derived from the railway and World Standard Time in the nineteenth century. These innovations restructred the way people viewed the world and dealt with "public" and "private" time. The forward, projectile motion along a linear track mimicked the passage of public chronological time. Conversely, the train also invoked a private, nostalgic view of tim as the traveler was yanked from his/her traditional view of the space/time continuum via the train's velocity. Travelers observed the landscape "disappear" in their backward glance from the window--although the landscape and interior compartment's space remained stagnant. This optical illusion caused passengers to perceive the world in new ways. Thus, the train unveils a conflictive blend of nostalgia and progress in the River Plate, as these countries move forward, but look back.
The Early History of Railway Tunnels
Author: Hubert PragnellPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399049445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
To the early railway traveller, the prospect of travelling to places in hours rather than days hitherto was an inviting prospect, however a journey was not without its fears as well as excitement. To some, the prospect of travelling through a tunnel without carriage lighting, with smoke permeating the compartment and the confined noise was a horror of the new age. What might happen if we broke down or crashed into another train in the darkness? To others it was exciting, with the light from the footplate flickering against the tunnel walls or spotting the occasional glimpses of light from a ventilation shaft. To the directors of early railway companies, planning a route was governed by expense and the most direct way. Avoiding hills could add miles but tunnelling through them could involve vast expense as the Great Western Railway found at Box and the London and Birmingham at Kilsby. Creating a cutting as an alternative was also costly not only in labour and time, but also in compensation for landowners, who opposed railways on visual and social grounds having seen their land divided by canals. Construction involved millions of bricks or blocks of stone for sufficiently thick walls to withstand collapse. However, the entrance barely seen from the carriage window might be an impressive Italianate arch as at Primrose Hill, or a castellated portal worthy of the Middle Ages as at Bramhope. This book sets out to tell the story of tunnelling in Britain up to about 1870, when it was a question of burrowing through earth and rock with spade and explosive powder, with the constant danger of collapse or flooding leading to injury and death. It uses contemporary accounts, from the dangers of railway travel by Dickens to the excitement of being drawn through the Liverpool Wapping Tunnel by the young composer Mendelssoln. It includes descriptions from early railway company guide books, newspapers and diaries. It also includes numerous photographs and colored architectural elevations from railway archives.
List of Additions to the Printed Books in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXXXVI-MDCCCXXXVIII.
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
Author: James R. AkermanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226010783
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Finding one’s way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of maps by travelers only became common in the modern era; indeed, in the last two hundred years, maps have become the most ubiquitous and familiar genre of modern cartography. Examining the historical relationship between travelers, navigation, and maps, Cartographies of Travel and Navigation considers the cartographic response to the new modalities of modern travel brought about by technological and institutional developments in the twentieth century. Highlighting the ways in which the travelers, operators, and planners of modern transportation systems value maps as both navigation tools and as representatives of a radical new mobility, this collection brings the cartography of travel—by road, sea, rail, and air—to the forefront, placing maps at the center of the history of travel and movement. Richly and colorfully illustrated, Cartographies of Travel and Navigation ably fills the void in historical literature on transportation mapping.
The Comic Annual
Author: Thomas HoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection
Author: Birmingham Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description