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Mobility in the Victorian Novel

Placing the Nation

Charlotte Mathieson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:15th Sep '15

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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 is an impressive contribution that breaks new ground. Those interested in mid-century tourism and travel, national identity and mobility will find it especially rewarding. I also highly recommend it for its thoughtfulness and rigor in textual interpretation, virtues that will surely make it valuable in teaching.” (John Edmondson, Dickens Quarterly, Vol. 34 (1), March, 2017)

“Mathieson goes on to examine Victorian fiction’s portrayal of England’s relations with the outer world–through European identity and through empire. … Mathieson’s book … is informative and helpful. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; researchers/faculty.” (N. Birns, Choice, Vol. 53 (8), April, 2016)

ISBN: 9781137545466

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 3894g

217 pages

1st ed. 2015