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Author : Charlotte Mathieson
Release Date : 13 September 2015
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
Pages : 217
ISBN 13 : 9781137545473

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Book excerpt: 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.

Mobility in the Victorian Novel

Author : Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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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....

Mobility in the Victorian Novel

Author : Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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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....

Dancing out of Line

Author : Molly Engelhardt
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Dancing out of Line transports readers back to the 1840s, when the craze for social and stage dancing forced Victorians into a complex relationship with the moving body in its most voluble, volatile form. By partnering cultural discourses with representations of the dance and the dancer in novels such as ...

A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Author : William Baker,Kenneth Womack
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Genre : Fiction
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This reference is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel and its contexts. It examines the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on serialization and syndication; it looks at significant social and cultural contexts surrounding the novel; it discusses various genres, such as ghost ...

Literature in a Time of Migration

Author : Josephine McDonagh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Examines nineteenth-century British fiction in the light of the new realities of human migration....

Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth Century Novel

Author : Clare Walker Gore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Genre : Disabilities in literature
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This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters....

Mobility

Author : Peter Adey
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Science
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Mobility aims to take the pulse of this enormously expanded and energetic field. It explores the breadth of the disciplinary areas mobility studies now encompass, examining the diverse conceptual and methodological approaches wielded within the field, and explores the utility of mobility to illuminate a cornucopia of mobile lives: from ...

Victorian Vulgarity

Author : Susan David Bernstein,Elsie B. Michie
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with wider social implications. Variously associated with behavior, the possession of wealth, different races, sexuality and gender, the objects displayed in homes, and ways of thinking and feeling, vulgarity suggested matters of ...

Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel

Author : Barbara Franchi,Elvan Mutlu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Genre : Literary Criticism
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How did Victorian travellers define and challenge the notion of Empire? How did the multiple forms of Victorian travel literature, such as fiction, travel accounts, newspapers, and poetry, shape perceptions of imperial and national spaces, in the British context and beyond? This collection examines how, in the Victorian era, space ...

The Starry Sky Within

Author : Anna Henchman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a cosmos of celestial systems in constant motion. Stars, comets, planets, and moons coursed through space in complex and changing ...

Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles

Author : Jeremy Withers
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Given the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, cars, airplanes, and so forth were invented), and given science fiction's overall obsession with machines and technologies of all kinds, it is surprising that scholars have not paid more attention ...

Changing Hands

Author : Peter Capuano
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction...

The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

Author : Lisa Rodensky
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and ...

Mobilities Literature Culture

Author : Marian Aguiar,Charlotte Mathieson,Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision ...

Post automobility Futures

Author : Róbert Braun,Richard Randell (Sociologist)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Genre : Automobiles
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This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. A successful transition to a post-automobility future will require new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing automobility, one of the most ...