Writing the stage coach nation : locality on the move in nineteenth-century British literature /
Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot and Hardy and explains how they convey an idea of a nation...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot and Hardy and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191822438 0191822434 0191082252 9780191082252 |