Le Grand Transit Moderne
Subtitle: Mobility, Modernity and French Naturalist Fiction (Faux Titre 260) (Faux Titre)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: April 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9789042018150
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; European - French; 19th century; City and town life in literature; France; French literature; History and criticism; Transportation
First sentence: Technology in the nineteenth century, in Walter Benjamin's formulation, 'subjected the human sensorium to a complex kind of training'.1