Writing the Stage Coach Nation Locality on the Move in Nineteenth-Century British Literature |
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| Author:
| Livesey, Ruth |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-876943-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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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.