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Transport in British Fiction

Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Adrienne E. Gavin

    1. International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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  2. Andrew F. Humphries

    1. Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Transports of Fiction 1840–1940

    1. The Transports of Fiction 1840–1940

      • Adrienne E. Gavin, Andrew F. Humphries
      Pages 1-25

  3. Transport in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction, 1840–1880

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Distance is Abolished

      • Elizabeth Bleicher
      Pages 29-43

    3. ‘A Perambulating Mass of Woollen Goods’

      • Charlotte Mathieson
      Pages 44-56

    4. Death by Train

      • Jen Cadwallader
      Pages 57-68

    5. Children On Board

      • Tamara S. Wagner
      Pages 69-83

    6. The Living Transport Machine

      • Margaret Linley
      Pages 84-100

    7. ‘I saw a great deal of trouble amongst the horses in London’

      • Adrienne E. Gavin
      Pages 101-119

  4. Transport in fın-de-siècle and Edwardian Fiction, 1880–1910

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The ‘Freedom Machine’

      • Lena Wånggren
      Pages 123-135

    3. ‘Buses should … inspire writers’

      • Lorna Shelley
      Pages 136-150

    4. Transport, Technology, and Trust

      • Courtney Salvey
      Pages 151-166

    5. ‘Into the interstices of time’

      • Paul March-Russell
      Pages 167-181

  5. Transport in Modern Fiction, 1910–1940

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Train(ing) Modernism

      • Benjamin Bateman
      Pages 185-198

    3. ‘This frightful war’

      • Andrew F. Humphries
      Pages 199-219

    4. From Tram to Black Maria

      • Janet Stobbs Wright
      Pages 220-234

    5. Driving Through a Changing Landscape

      • Peter Lowe
      Pages 235-249

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 250-273
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About this book

Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive.

Reviews

“Each of the chapter throughout Transport in British Fiction demonstrates effective thematic analysis of narratives of transport; there’s richness to the collection’s overall scope.” (Daniel Martin, Victorian Studies, Vol.59 (2),2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

    Adrienne E. Gavin

  • Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

    Andrew F. Humphries

About the editors

Benjamin Bateman, California State University, USA Elizabeth Bleicher, Ithaca College, USA Jen Cadwallader, Randolph-Macon College, USA Adrienne E. Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Andrew F. Humphries, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Margaret Linley, Simon Fraser University, Canada Peter Lowe, Bader International Study Centre, UK Paul March-Russell, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Charlotte Mathieson, University of Warwick, UK Courtney Salvey, University of Kent, UK Lorna Shelley, University of Wolverhampton, UK Janet Stobbs Wright, University of CEU Cardenal Herrera in Elche, Spain Tamara S. Wagner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh, UK

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