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.
Emily Ridge is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Education University of Hong Kong.
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[...] makes a significant contribution to modernist studies through elegant consideration of the ‘new culture of portability in the early twentieth century’ and its effects on modernist approaches to fiction (p. 4).
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Introduction1. ‘Living Modernly's Living Quickly’: Towards Travelling Light 2. ‘A Purse of Her Own’: Women and Carriage3. ‘No one Is Safe from the Beggar’s Pack’: Portability and Precarity4. ‘Have You Anything to Declare?’: Portable Selves on TrialConclusion
