Mobility in the Victorian novel : placing the nation
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Mobility in the Victorian novel : placing the nation
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-209) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create the place of the nation within a changing global landscape.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Journeying Victorian Britain 1. 'Wandering out into the World': Walking the Connected Nation 2. 'Flying from the grasp': Embodying the Railway Journey 3. 'It's all one'? Continental Connections 4. 'The distance is quite imaginary': Travelling beyond Europe Conclusion: The Mobile Nation of The Moonstone Bibliography Index
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