TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wojciech Tomasik
AU  - Teresa Fazan
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631832172
TI  - Insane Run
T2  - Railroad and Dark Modernity
DO  - 10.3726/b17421
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114295
N2  - This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane “run“ ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to it. The word “dark“ used to describe modernity is understood as a metaphor of gradual and permanent devaluation of the idea of progress, as a fading hope for the future of Europe as bright, predictable, prosperous, and safe. The “darkening“ also receives a literal sense. At the end of the nineteenth century, darkness found its way back to the public space – in the theaters, panoramas, dioramas, and “love tunnels“, which awaited the visitors of American and European amusement parks.
KW  - nineteenth century, popular culture, technology in literature, railroad disaster, melodrama, early cinema
LA  - English
ER  -