The Railway and Modernity

The Editors: Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the editor of Adventures in Realism (2007). Michael Freeman is Supernumerary Fellow in Human Geography at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. His principal publications include: Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World (2004); and Railways and the Victorian Imagination (1999), winner of the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year 1999 and short-listed for the Sally Hacker prize at Johns Hopkins, 2001.

Contents: Matthew Beaumont/Michael Freeman: Preface - Matthew Beaumont/Michael Freeman: Introduction: Tracks to Modernity - Ana Parejo Vadillo/John Plunkett: The Railway Passenger; or, The Training of the Eye - Patrick Keiller: Phantom Rides: The Railway and Early Film - Michael Freeman: Time and Space under Modernism: The Railway in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers - Andrew Thacker: Uncompleted Life: The Modernist Underground - Matthew Beaumont: Railway Mania: The Compartment as the Scene of a Crime - Laura Marcus: Psychoanalytic Training: Freud and the Railways - Adrian Gregory: To the Jerusalem Express: Wartime Commuters and Anti-Semitism - Wojciech Tomasik: The Auschwitz Terminus: Driverless Trains in Zola and Borowski - William Kidd: Sites of Memory, Sites of Modernity: French Railways in the Twentieth Century - Ian Carter: The Little World Where You Don't Live: Railway Modelling.