W. Parkins

Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s

Women Moving Dangerously

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-52542-9
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780230525429
• ISBN-10: 0230525423
• Artikelnr.: 25148903

Autorenporträt

WENDY PARKINS is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the co-author, with Geoffrey Craig, of Slow Living (2006), the editor of Fashioning the Body Politic (2001) and has published a number of journal articles on women's modernity.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernity, Mobility and Women's Agency Home and Away: North and South and Adam Bede Travelling Companions: Moths and Miss Brown The New Woman's 'Wheels of Daily Existence': The Daughters of Danaus and Red Pottage Street Politics: The Convert and Clash Moving Dangerously: Cold Comfort Farm and To the North Destinations of the Modern Woman Endnotes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Mobility and Modernity crackles with new perspectives." - Charlotte MacDonald, Victoria University of Wellington