Josephine McDonagh is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She has taught at several British universities, most recently King's College London. Her books include De Quincey's Disciplines (1994), and Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 (2003).

This is another book that places Dickens in refreshing new (or rediscovered) contexts ...

• Introduction: Fiction in a Time of Migration Part One: Experiments in Fiction and Space, 1810s to 1840s 1: Walter Scott's Long-Distance Fiction: Guy Mannering and the Gypsy 2: John Galt's 'Whole Art of Colonization': Sound, Voice, Space 3: Transported! Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Charlotte Brontë Imagine a Colony 4: 'Infinite Kindness': Distant Intimacy in the Transatlantic Print Worlds of Mary Russell Mitford and James T. Fields Part Two: The Mid-Century Novel 5: The Political Picaresque: Thomas Martin Wheeler's Sunshine and Shadow 6: Dickens's National Novel: On Settling and Being Unsettled in Bleak House 7: George Eliot's Provincial Novels: 'Another Great Migration' in Daniel Deronda Conclusion: Moving On: 'Amy Foster' and 'Uncompromising Exile'

Josephine McDonagh is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She has taught at several British universities, most recently King's College London. Her books include De Quincey's Disciplines (1994), and Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 (2003).

This is another book that places Dickens in refreshing new (or rediscovered) contexts ...

• Introduction: Fiction in a Time of Migration Part One: Experiments in Fiction and Space, 1810s to 1840s 1: Walter Scott's Long-Distance Fiction: Guy Mannering and the Gypsy 2: John Galt's 'Whole Art of Colonization': Sound, Voice, Space 3: Transported! Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Charlotte Brontë Imagine a Colony 4: 'Infinite Kindness': Distant Intimacy in the Transatlantic Print Worlds of Mary Russell Mitford and James T. Fields Part Two: The Mid-Century Novel 5: The Political Picaresque: Thomas Martin Wheeler's Sunshine and Shadow 6: Dickens's National Novel: On Settling and Being Unsettled in Bleak House 7: George Eliot's Provincial Novels: 'Another Great Migration' in Daniel Deronda Conclusion: Moving On: 'Amy Foster' and 'Uncompromising Exile'

Josephine McDonagh is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She has taught at several British universities, most recently King's College London. Her books include De Quincey's Disciplines (1994), and Child Murder and British Culture 1720-1900 (2003).

This is another book that places Dickens in refreshing new (or rediscovered) contexts ...

• Introduction: Fiction in a Time of Migration Part One: Experiments in Fiction and Space, 1810s to 1840s 1: Walter Scott's Long-Distance Fiction: Guy Mannering and the Gypsy 2: John Galt's 'Whole Art of Colonization': Sound, Voice, Space 3: Transported! Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Charlotte Brontë Imagine a Colony 4: 'Infinite Kindness': Distant Intimacy in the Transatlantic Print Worlds of Mary Russell Mitford and James T. Fields Part Two: The Mid-Century Novel 5: The Political Picaresque: Thomas Martin Wheeler's Sunshine and Shadow 6: Dickens's National Novel: On Settling and Being Unsettled in Bleak House 7: George Eliot's Provincial Novels: 'Another Great Migration' in Daniel Deronda Conclusion: Moving On: 'Amy Foster' and 'Uncompromising Exile'