Transport in British Fiction

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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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.

• Transport in fiction
• transport in literature
• transport
• technology
• technological
• movement
• motion
• mobility
• train
• fiction
• literature
• Victorian
• modern
• modernism
• modernity
• urban
• fin de siècle
• horse
• equine
• cab

“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)

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

  Adrienne E. Gavin

• Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

  Andrew F. Humphries

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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