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.

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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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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Journeying Victorian Britain 1. 'Wandering out into the World': Walking the Connected Nation 2. 'Flying from the grasp': Embodying the Railway Journey 3. 'It's all one'? Continental Connections 4. 'The distance is quite imaginary': Travelling beyond Europe Conclusion: The Mobile Nation of The Moonstone Bibliography Index