Transport in British Fiction:Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940

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Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive.

Notes on the Contributors The Transports of Fiction 1840-1940: An Introduction; Adrienne E. Gavin and Andrew F. Humphries PART I: 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’: 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 LITERATURE, 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 Bibliography Index

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Transport in British Fiction:Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940（Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture） 世界通史

Transport in British Fiction:Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940（Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture）
世界通史