Is Twain's "Cannibalism in the Cars" relevant to this project?

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Here's an interesting grad student inquiry from C19 that I thought perhaps
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> some of you might like to respond to or know about ... -hb
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> Dr. Hal Bush
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> Dept. of English
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> Saint Louis University
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> author website:  halbush.com
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> From: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
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> [log in to unmask]> on behalf of Carolin Alice Hofmann <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 3:21 AM
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> Subject: Train Wrecks in Fiction
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> Hello,
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> I=92m writing about 19th century precursors to =91trauma=92 in my doctoral
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> project. For a chapter on journalistic and literary responses to
> =91railway=
>  spine,=92 a condition that marks a shift from physical to psychological
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> planations of being harmed by modern technology, I am looking for train
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> cks in literature. Specifically, I=92m trying to find representations of
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> ilroad accidents in the second half of the 19th century, that are ideally
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> ot just minor plot events but have a greater significance, as they, for
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> mple, invite discussions of chance, risk, accident, lasting psychological
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> 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
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> ur,=94 and Holmes, A Moral Antipathy. Any suggestions would be super
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> l. Nonfictional texts are also interesting to me.
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> Many thanks in advance.
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> Best wishes,
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> Alice ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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> Carolin Alice Hofmann
> PhD Candidate
> English Department
> University at Albany=97SUNY
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