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.

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 worldthrough 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)

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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).

Inhalt

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
   Bibliography
   Index