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Drivetime: Literary Excursions in Automotive Consciousness
Lynne Pearce
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Description for Drivetime: Literary Excursions in Automotive Consciousness
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Engages literary texts in order to theorise the distinctive cognitive and affective experiences of driving
What sorts of things do we think about when we’re driving – or being driven – in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from `the motoring century’ (1900-2000), paying particular attention to the way in which the practice of driving shapes and structures our thinking. While recent sociological and psychological research has helped explain how drivers are able to think about `other things’ while performing such a complex task, little attention has, ... Read more
Key Features
- Brings Humanities-based perspectives to bear upon topical debates in automobilities research
- Introduces a new concept for understanding our journeys made my car by focusing on the driver’s automotive consciousness rather than utility/function
- Makes use of auto-ethnography to explore and theorise automotive consciousness
- Draws upon a rich archive of literary texts from across the twentieth-century including original research into unknown writers featured in the early twentieth-century texts/motoring periodicals
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748690848
SKU
V9780748690848
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