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- Title
Locomotive Breath: The Living Machines and Railway Dreams of Alexander Anderson's Working-Class Verse.
- Authors
Stephenson, Ethan Taylor
- Abstract
The article focuses on the impact of the British railway system on both the landscape and literary imagination, particularly through the poetry of Scottish working-class poet Alexander Anderson. Topics include the influence of railways on conceptions of time and space, Anderson's portrayal of railway workers and technologies, and the existential fears and dangers associated with the machine age.
- Subjects
RAILROADS in literature; ANDERSON, Alexander, 1845-1909; POETRY (Literary form); SCOTTISH literature; LANDSCAPES
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2022, Vol 60, Issue 3, p277
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2022.0015