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英国鉄道物語

Mainichi Publishing Culture Award

英国鉄道物語

Shigeru Koike

Eikoku Tetsudo Monogatari is Shigeru Koike's critical account linking British railway history with literary culture. Through the birth and development of railways, timetables and travel culture, and railways in Dickens, detective fiction, and other writing, it portrays modern British society and imagination.

railway historyBritainliteraturetravel culturemodernity

Work Information

A critical work on modern British transport culture that moves between railway history and literature.

Shigeru Koike, a Dickens scholar and railway enthusiast, tells the history of British railways from both social and literary perspectives. The book treats the rise of steam railways, the development of timetables and stations, class and travel, railway accidents, and railway imagery in detective fiction and Victorian literature, showing how transport altered modern habits of life and storytelling. It is a major work of railway culture criticism in which scholarship and enthusiasm meet.

Book Information

Publisher
晶文社
Published
1979-01-01
Pages
284 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784794959645
ISBN-10
4794959648
Price
271 JPY
Category
本/趣味・実用/鉄道

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Reviews

  • とにかく読みづらい

    自分の好き勝手なことを思いつくままに書いているだけで、話がよくわからない。もっとしっかり客観視した構成をたて、なぜロンドンのTubeがあのような線路の構成になったかや駅それぞれのエピソードをきちんと掘り下げてほしい。 英国鉄道はその後インドにもそのやり方が取り入れられ、綿花を運ぶなど歴史的にも日本のみならず世界で大きな影響を与えている。そこをしっかりもっと書いてほしい。 ただの電車おじさんの本。

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