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 Germany