Ruth Livesey

Writing the Stage Coach Nation

Locality on the Move in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, and Hardy, and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198769439
• ISBN-10: 0198769431
• Artikelnr.: 47865955

Autorenporträt

Ruth Livesey is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought in the Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914 (OUP, 2007), and co-editor of The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture, 1776-1914 (Ashgate, 2013). She was an editor of Journal of Victorian Culture from 2008 to 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* List of Illustrations
* Introduction: Writing the Stage Coach Nation
* 1: Walter Scott and the Stage Coach Nation
* 2: Radicalism on the Cross Roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett
* 3: Radicalism on the Cross Roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett
* 4: Halting at the Fingerpost: Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, and the
Railway Future
* 5: Communicating with Jane Eyre: Stage Coach, Mail, and the Tory
Nation
* 6: Driving Back with George Eliot: Locality and National Memory in
Felix Holt, the Radical
* Conclusion: The Empty Road in Dickens and Hardy
* Bibliography
* Index