Driving Through a Changing Landscape: Car Travel in Inter-War Fiction / Peter Lowe. 14. Transport in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction, 1840-1880: 1. Distance is Abolished: The Democratization and Erasure of Travel in William Makepeace Thackeray's Barry Lyndon / Elizabeth Bleicher; 2. .'A Perambulating Mass of Woollen Goods': Travelling Bodies in Transit in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Railway Journey / Charlotte Mathieson ; 3. Death by Train: Spectral Technology and Dickens's Mugby Junction / Jen Cadwallader; 4. Children On Board: Transoceanic Crossings in Victorian Literature / Tamara S. Wagner; 5. The Living Transport Machine: George Eliot's Middlemarch / Margaret Linley; 6. .'I saw a great deal of trouble amongst the horses in London': Anna Sewell's Black Beauty and the Victorian Cab Horse / Adrienne E. Gavin -- Part II. Transport in fin-de-siècle and Edwardian Fiction, 1880-1910: 7. The 'Freedom Machine': The New Woman and the Bicycle / Lena Wånggren; 8. 'Buses should ... inspire writers': Omnibuses in fin-de-siècle Short Stories and Journalism / Lorna Shelley; 9. Transport, Technology, and Trust: The 'Sustaining Illusion' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Nostromo / Courtney Salvey; 10. 'Into the interstices of time': Speed and Perception in the Scientific Romance / Paul March Russell -- Part III. Transport in Modern Fiction, 1910-1940: 11. Train(ing) Modernism: Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and the Moving Locations of Queerness / Benjamin Bateman; 12. 'This frightful war': Trains as Settings of Disturbance and Dislocation in the First World War Fiction of D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield / Andrew F. Humphries; 13. From Tram to Black Maria: Transport in A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse / Janet Stobbs Wright; 14. Driving Through a Changing Landscape: Car Travel in Inter-War Fiction / Peter Lowe.
Summary:
"Transport in British Fiction: Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940 is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types--horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space--in British fiction. Gathering international expertise, its 14 original essays explore the ways in which the social, historical, and cultural impacts of transport integrate with the concerns of fiction across a century marked by both unprecedented technological change and the entrenchment of the novel as the dominant literary form. Analyzing textual synthesis of technological advances with rapidly shifting cultural perspectives, the volume explores fiction's fascination with transport's symbolism and its impact upon character, relationships, and society. Exploring transport in contexts including gender, class, sexuality, colonialism, war, urbanism, modernity, travel, crime, and science fiction, the volume offers innovative perspectives on the fictional portrayal of new transport technologies that were as democratizing and progressive as they were threatening and destabilizing"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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