Michael J. Freeman

Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain

Railways and the Victorian Imagination

Michael Freeman

Professor of English Law Michael Freeman

When one considers the sheer amount of rock and earth that the Victorians excavated as they criss-crossed Britain with railways and canals, it is hardly surprising that they became fascinated by the fossils, bones and man-made treasures that they happened upon.

Tracks to a Lost World

Victorians and the Prehistoric

Derek Howard Aldcroft

Transport in the Industrial Revolution

Excerpt: Rupert looked at Kylie's red buttocks waving from side to side, revealing her vagina and his penis became rigidly erect. He picked up a swishy cane with a school handle and gave it to Estelle. "Cane the little slut hard" he ordered.The Honey Trap is about a blackmail plot goes wrong with dreadful consequences for model agent Terry when he is sent to prison for making child porn.His two model girlfriends leave him to go and live with the millionaire Lord Rupert Rowlandson the intended blackmail victim. The Honey Trap is set against a background of illegal sex committed by Terry and vivid descriptions of the kinky BDSM games that the girls, Estelle 31, and Karlie16, play willingly with their millionaire sugar daddy.Terry spends two degrading years in the "Nonce's wing, in Wormwood Scrubs, spat at, his food defiled, assaulted by inmates and screws. He was almost a broken man but there was one thing that kept him going the thought of revenge." Read what happens when he goes down to Rupert's country mansion with the intention of torturing him and the girls to death...

The Honey Trap

Matthew Beaumont

Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.

Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble

The Railway and Modernity

Alan William Raitt

Mike Freeman

This book brings together in one volume essays by leading scholars in the field of nineteenth-century literature and art, all of whom have been associated with Alan Raitt as either colleagues or pupils. It also includes an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes. This is a tribute to a scholar with a truly international reputation who is one of Britain's leading authorities on the nineteenth century.

Michael J. Freeman

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