Mobility in the Victorian Novel [electronic resource] : Placing the Nation /
Mathieson, Charlotte.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 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.
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.
British literature.
European literature.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
British and Irish Literature.
European Literature.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.