{"product_id":"drivetime-literary-excursions-in-automotive-consciousness-9781474431460","title":"Drivetime: Literary Excursions in Automotive Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngages literary texts in order to theorise the distinctive cognitive and affective experiences of driving\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat sorts of things do we think about when we're driving - or being driven - in a car? \u003ci\u003eDrivetime\u003c\/i\u003e 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, as yet, been paid to the form these cognitive and affective journeys take. Pearce uses her close readings of literary texts - ranging from early twentieth-century motoring periodicals, Modernist and inter-war fiction, American 'road-trip' classics, and autobiography - in order to model different types of 'driving-event' and, by extension, the car's use as a means of phenomenological encounter, escape from memory, meditation, problem-solving and daydreaming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrings 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 consciousnessDraws 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynne Pearce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474431460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory and Women's Writing at the University of Lancaster. She has published widely in the field of literary and cultural theory, with particular interests in: feminist reader-theory (\u003ci\u003eWoman\/Image\/Text\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eReading Dialogics\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eFeminism and the Politics of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eThe Rhetorics of Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e (1997); romance theory (\u003ci\u003eRomance Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, 2007); and mobilities research (\u003ci\u003eDevolving Identities\u003c\/i\u003e (ed.) (2000), \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Manchester\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored: 2013) \u003ci\u003eDrivetime\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). She is also Director of Humanities at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45125203492979,"sku":"9781474431460","price":60.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3b482795-2bcf-43fa-9450-ce0a564f1006.jpg?v=1782231991","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/drivetime-literary-excursions-in-automotive-consciousness-9781474431460","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}