Railways and the Victorian Imagination

Offers a new cultural history of the railway age in Britain. As the newly constructed railways transformed the landscape & the economics of nineteenth-century Britain, they transformed the very culture itself, & this richly illustrated account records & illuminates that transformation. From geological studies to the walls of the Royal Academy, from rapidly growing atheism to innovative games for children; from Darwinism to the temples of capitalism-almost every aspect of human endeavor was informed by & related to the developing railway.

Michael Freeman is Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Human Geography at Mansfield College, Oxford.