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Ruth Livesey

Writing the Stage Coach Nation

Locality on the Move in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

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Why is it that so many of the best-loved novels of the Victorian era take place not in the steam-powered railway present in which they were published, but in the very recent past? Most works by Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, and Hardy set action neither in the present nor in a definitively historical epoch but rather in a 'just' past of collective memory, a vanishing but still tangible world moving by stage and mail coach. It is easy to overlook the fact that JaneEyre, Bleak House, and Middlemarch, for example, are in this sense historical novels, recreating places and times that are just slipping from the horizon of here and now. Ruth Livesey bring… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-108226-9
  • EAN: 9780191082269
  • Produktnummer: 20663807
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 7'316 KB
  • Abbildungen: 16 black and white halftones

Über den Autor


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 to2015.

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