From El to Hell: On Stage in the Urban Underworld

Images of the New York subway and its precursors, the Elevated train and the horse-car, hold a special place in American culture. While the descent into the subway station and the ride along endless miles of subterranean tracks are almost inevitably figured as a journey to the Underworld, the whole...

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Main Author: William Chapman SHARPE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2010-03-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1085