Mobility and modernity in women's novels, 1850s-1930s : women moving dangerously

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    • Parkins, Wendy

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Mobility and modernity in women's novels, 1850s-1930s : women moving dangerously

Wendy Parkins

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-190) and index

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Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernity, Mobility and Women's Agency Home and Away: North and South and Adam Bede Travelling Companions: Moths and Miss Brown The New Woman's 'Wheels of Daily Existence': The Daughters of Danaus and Red Pottage Street Politics: The Convert and Clash Moving Dangerously: Cold Comfort Farm and To the North Destinations of the Modern Woman Endnotes Bibliography Index

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