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

Zusatztext "Mobility and Modernity crackles with new perspectives." - Charlotte MacDonald! Victoria University of Wellington Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernity, Mobility and Women's Agency Home and Away: North and South and Adam Bede Travelling Companions: Moths and Miss Brown The New Woman's 'Wheels of Daily Existence': The Daughters of Danaus and Red Pottage Street Politics: The Convert and Clash Moving Dangerously: Cold Comfort Farm and To the North Destinations of the Modern Woman Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernity, Mobility and Women's Agency Home and Away: North and South and Adam Bede Travelling Companions: Moths and Miss Brown The New Woman's 'Wheels of Daily Existence': The Daughters of Danaus and Red Pottage Street Politics: The Convert and Clash Moving Dangerously: Cold Comfort Farm and To the North Destinations of the Modern Woman Endnotes Bibliography Index

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

Product details

• Authors: W Parkins, W. Parkins, Wendy Parkins
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2008
• EAN: 9780230525429
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52542-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection