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

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.

Author: W. Parkins
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/27/2008
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230525429

About the Author
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.