Locomotion in Literature
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2025
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- Title
- Locomotion in Literature
- Author
- Zerlang, Martin
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 104101578X
- ISBN 13
- 9781041015789
The invention of the locomotive changed landscapes, cityscapes, social relations, sensibilities prophesied by Hans Christian Andersen it also made huge impact on literature: on genres, themes, style. This book is about this commotion, this literary locomotion as it has been represented in Danish literature.
The book explores the movements between text and context, and the interplay between literature and social history. Through the prism of the railway, the book provides an overview of Danish literary history, from writers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Georg Brandes, Henrik Pontoppidan, Johannes V. Jensen, Tove Ditlevsen, Peter Høeg. The locomotive of history is a well-known metaphor, but a historical reading of these writers also show the impact of history on this metaphor, from something extraordinary to something more ordinary. Hans Christian Andersen wrote about meeting God face-to-face on the railway. The experience of the modern commuter is closer to what Georges Perec calls the infraordinary. As reflected in the work of Peter Høeg, however, the railway also figures in the intense contemporary debates on decolonizing. The book draws on theoretical insights expressed in concepts such as chronotope, character and literary speed.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in literature studies, history, transport and mobility studies, human geography and urban studies.
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About the Author
Martin Zerlang is a Professor of Literature and Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen. Co-founder of the Erasmus Master Programme 4Cities in collaboration with universities in Brussels, Vienna and Madrid. He has published extensively on Danish and Latin American literature, on entertainment, on urban culture and the cultural history of transportation.
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