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Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s

Women Moving Dangerously

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  • © 2009

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  1. Wendy Parkins
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Modernity, Mobility and Women’s Agency

    • Wendy Parkins
    Pages 1-20

  3. Home and Away

    • Wendy Parkins
    Pages 21-47

  4. Travelling Companions

    • Wendy Parkins
    Pages 48-77

  5. The New Woman’s ‘Wheels of Daily Existence’

    • Wendy Parkins
    Pages 78-103

  6. Street Politics

    • Wendy Parkins
    Pages 104-123

  7. Moving Dangerously

    • Wendy Parkins
    Pages 124-143

  8. Destinations of the Modern Woman

    • Wendy Parkins
    Pages 144-161

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 162-198
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Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.

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"Mobility and Modernity crackles with new perspectives." - Charlotte MacDonald, Victoria University of Wellington

About the author

WENDY PARKINS is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the co-author, with Geoffrey Craig, of Slow Living (2006), the editor of Fashioning the Body Politic (2001) and has published a number of journal articles on women's modernity.

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