Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781787442726
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1787442721
Content:
A lively exploration of the relation between the arrival of the novel, the literary form that uses life-as-a-journey as its master trope, and the transport revolution in eighteenth-century Britain
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Text -- Introduction: Mobility and the eighteenth-century novel -- 1. Travelling by sea and land in Robinson Crusoe -- 2. Tom Jones and the epic of mobility -- 3. Smollett and the changing landscape of the ramble -- 4. Sterne and the invention of speed -- 5. Crash: Sentimental journeys and alternative mobilities -- 6. Northanger Abbey and Austenâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;wandering storyâ#x80;#x99; -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1783272961
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783272969
Language:
English
