Limited access : transport metaphors and realism in the British novel, 1740- ­1860 / Kyoko Takanashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takanashi, Kyoko, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction.

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

Metaphor in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Limited Access employs the trope of reading as travel to consider questions of access, both symbolic and material, in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. The author draws on media studies and the history of books and examines work by authors including Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and George Eliot"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Transports of Reading

1. Delivering Narrative to Consumer-Readers: Staging Inclusion in Fielding's Tom Jones

2. Noisy Vehicles and Oversensitive Readers: Miscommunicating Feeling in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Smollett's Humphry Clinker

3. Local History for Distant Readers: Narrative Transmission in Scott's The Tales of My Landlord

4. Information Overload in Industrial Print Culture: Shortcuts to Knowledge in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers

5. The "Prae-railroadite" and the Railway Generation: Sharing Memories in Thackeray's Vanity Fair

Conclusion: George Eliot and Contingent Access to Literary History

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Takanashi, Kyoko Limited Access

ISBN:

9780813947594

OCLC:

1335121672