Railway infrastructure and the Victorian novel : from platform to plot via the railroad /
"Railway and novel infrastructure shared the task of getting nineteenth-century society moving in new ways. In canonical fiction by Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Nicola Kirkby reveals imaginative entanglement between new large-scale infrastructure and changing logistica...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
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| Summary: | "Railway and novel infrastructure shared the task of getting nineteenth-century society moving in new ways. In canonical fiction by Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Nicola Kirkby reveals imaginative entanglement between new large-scale infrastructure and changing logistical possibilities of the novel in the first railway age"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 217 pages. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009295574 1009295578 9781009295611 1009295616 |