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Mobility in the Victorian novel : placing the nation

Mathieson, Charlotte, author

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\"Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores the role of mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Focusing on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys serve to create the place of the nation and understand its relationship to a global landscape that was being restructured by new modes of mobility. Looking at journeys by rail, stagecoach, and on foot, undertaken by travellers and tourists, governesses and dairymaids, sailors and factory girls, and many more figures in between, this book reveals a rich and varied canvas of mobile practices and argues that these are central to understanding the idea of the nation, and its connections to the rest of the world, in the Victorian novel\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: English fiction 19th century History and criticism. / Travel in literature. / Movement in literature. / LITERARY CRITICISM / General. / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
• ISBN: 9781137545466, 1137545461

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR878.T75 M38 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE