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Portable modernisms : the art of traveling light / Emily Ridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ridge, Emily, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.
- Contents:
- 1. 'Living modernly's living quickly': Towards Travelling Light
- 2. 'A purse of her own': Women and Carriage
- 3. 'No one is safe from the beggar's pack': Portability and Precarity
- 4. 'Have you anything to declare?': Portable Selves on Trial.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-1961-5
- 1-4744-3462-2
- 1-4744-1960-7
- OCLC:
- 1312726195
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