Mobility in the Victorian novel : placing the nation / Charlotte Mathieson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathieson, Charlotte, author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Travel in literature.

Movement in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores the role of mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Focusing on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys serve to create the place of the nation and understand its relationship to a global landscape that was being restructured by new modes of mobility. Looking at journeys by rail, stagecoach, and on foot, undertaken by travellers and tourists, governesses and dairymaids, sailors and factory girls, and many more figures in between, this book reveals a rich and varied canvas of mobile practices and argues that these are central to understanding the idea of the nation, and its connections to the rest of the world, in the Victorian novel"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137545466

1137545461

OCLC:

910091010