Dear Hal,

i haven't heard from your train wreck student, but i just remembered i
wanted to send you a train wreck of my own. If you think it's awful
let's just not mention it again. I did my best, though. Thought it was
a great honor to have been asked to write on HF. The book is mainly
foer the European market. 

best wishes, and please do consider another Fulbright here - 

Wolfgang

On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 06:52:07 +0000
 Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Here's an interesting grad student inquiry from C19 that I thought
>perhaps =
>some of you might like to respond to or know about ... -hb
>
>
>Dr. Hal Bush
>
>Dept. of English
>
>Saint Louis University
>
>[log in to unmask]
>
>314-977-3616
>
>http://halbush.com
>
>author website:  halbush.com
>
>
>________________________________
>From: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
><L-C19-AMERICANIS=
>[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Carolin Alice Hofmann
><[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 3:21 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Train Wrecks in Fiction
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I=92m writing about 19th century precursors to =91trauma=92 in my
>doctoral =
>project. For a chapter on journalistic and literary responses to
>=91railway=
> spine,=92 a condition that marks a shift from physical to
>psychological ex=
>planations of being harmed by modern technology, I am looking for
>train wre=
>cks in literature. Specifically, I=92m trying to find representations
>of ra=
>ilroad accidents in the second half of the 19th century, that are
>ideally n=
>ot just minor plot events but have a greater significance, as they,
>for exa=
>mple, invite discussions of chance, risk, accident, lasting
>psychological d=
>amage, etc. I=92ve already found Howells, A Quality of Mercy, Twain,
>=93The=
> Danger of Lying in Bed,=94 Newell, Smoked Glass, Chopin, =93Story of
>an Ho=
>ur,=94 and Holmes, A Moral Antipathy. Any suggestions would be super
>helpfu=
>l. Nonfictional texts are also interesting to me.
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Alice ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
>
>--
>Carolin Alice Hofmann
>PhD Candidate
>English Department
>University at Albany=97SUNY


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
Head of Department
Dept. of English / Centre for Security and Society
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
Rempart St. 15
D-79098 Freiburg
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