Trains, Culture, and Mobility (eBook)

Benjamin Fraser is assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Charleston, South Carolina. He is also the author of the monographs Disability Studies and Spanish Culture (Liverpool UP, forthcoming), Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience (Bucknell UP, 2011) and Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain (U North Carolina P, 2010) as well as the editor and translator of Deaf History and Culture in Spain (Gallaudet UP, 2009).Steven D. Spalding is assistant professor of French at Christopher Newport University.

ntroductionBenjamin Fraser and Steven D. SpaldingPart I. Speed and VisionChapter 1: Cultures of Speed and Conservative Modernity: Representations of Speed in Britain’s Railway MarketingColin Divall & Hiroki Shin Chapter 2: The Speed of Signs: Train Graffiti, Cultural Production and the Mobility of the Urban in France and SpainBenjamin Fraser and Steven D. SpaldingPart II. On PassengersChapter 3: ‘What to Wear and Where to Go’: Picturing the Modern Consumer on the Great Western Railway 1921-39 Alexander MedcalfChapter 4: Seen from a Carriage: A Rhythmanalytic Study of Train Travel and MediationRowan WilkenPart III. City NetworksChapter 5: Urban Railways, Industrial Infrastructure and the Paris Cityscape, 1870-1914Peter SoppelsaChapter 6: Subways and Cell Phones: Seoul as a Network City Samuel Gerald CollinsPart IV. Inside the StationChapter 7: Brief Encounters and Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Train Station ArchitectureAgata MorkaChapter 8: Digging Madrid: A Descent into Madrid’s Subway Museum, ‘Andén 0 [Platform] 0’ Araceli Masterson-AlgarPart V. Shifting States Chapter 9: Trains, Modernity, and State-Formation in Meiji JapanTristan R. GrunowChapter 10: ‘The Super-Express of Our Dreams’ and Other Mythologies about Postwar JapanHiraku ShimodaNotes on ContributorsIndex