Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation

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.

Author: Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 217
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781137545466

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2016

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).