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, Brontë, Eliot, and Hardy, and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place.
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, Brontë, Eliot, and Hardy, and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place.
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 to 2015.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Introduction: Writing the Stage Coach Nation * 1: Walter Scott and the Stage Coach Nation * 2: Radicalism on the Cross Roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett * 3: Radicalism on the Cross Roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett * 4: Halting at the Fingerpost: Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, and the Railway Future * 5: Communicating with Jane Eyre: Stage Coach, Mail, and the Tory Nation * 6: Driving Back with George Eliot: Locality and National Memory in Felix Holt, the Radical * Conclusion: The Empty Road in Dickens and Hardy * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Introduction: Writing the Stage Coach Nation * 1: Walter Scott and the Stage Coach Nation * 2: Radicalism on the Cross Roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett * 3: Radicalism on the Cross Roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett * 4: Halting at the Fingerpost: Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, and the Railway Future * 5: Communicating with Jane Eyre: Stage Coach, Mail, and the Tory Nation * 6: Driving Back with George Eliot: Locality and National Memory in Felix Holt, the Radical * Conclusion: The Empty Road in Dickens and Hardy * Bibliography * Index
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