Women and the Railway, 1850-1915

by Anna Despotopoulou

Examines cultural representations of women's experience of the railway in the nineteenth century
Examining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book explores the extraordinary and unprecedented opportunities that the train offered women. An emblem of the conquest of national and imperial space and of the staggering advances of science and technology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748676945
• ISBN13: 9780748676941
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"