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Mobility in the Victorian Novel

Placing the Nation

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction: Journeying Victorian Britain

    • Charlotte Mathieson
    Pages 1-18
  3. ‘It’s all one’? Continental Connections

    • Charlotte Mathieson
    Pages 87-119
  4. Conclusion: The Mobile Nation of The Moonstone

    • Charlotte Mathieson
    Pages 153-168
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 169-217

About this book

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.

Reviews

“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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK

    Charlotte Mathieson

About the author

Charlotte Mathieson is Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK, where she was awarded her PhD from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2011. She researches and teaches nineteenth-century literature, and publications include Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920 (2014).

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