15 mai 2020
Pablo Markin, « The Omnibus, Nineteenth Century Paris and Urban Modernity », Open Culture, ID : 10670/1.6nut8m
In her monograph Engine of Modernity, Masha Belenky (2020) presents an in-depth exploration of the positioning that the Parisian omnibus has held in popular culture works, such as press articles and fictional texts, created during the years of this vehicle’s operation in the nineteenth century. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. This exploration of the cultural valences of the omnibus draws on literary guidebooks to Paris, canonical novels, e.g., by Emile Zola, and caricatures and lithographs f...