Mobility in the Victorian Novel

Placing the Nation

AvCharlotte Mathieson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

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Beskrivning

Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-09-15
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Antal sidor:217
Upplaga:2015
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137545466

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Charlotte Mathieson is Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK, where she was awarded her PhD from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2011. She researches and teaches nineteenth-century literature, and publications include Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920 (2014).

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"Mathieson goes on to examine Victorian fiction's portrayal of England's relations with the outer world-through European identity and through empire. ... Mathieson's book ... is informative and helpful. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; researchers/faculty." (N. Birns, Choice, Vol. 53 (8), April, 2016)

Innehållsförteckning

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