Mobility in the Victorian Novel : Placing the Nation / Charlotte Mathieson.
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...
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.