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 > = > 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 > -- John H. Davis, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of English Department of English Chowan University Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855