Writing the stage coach nation locality on the move in nineteenth century British literature First Edition by Ruth Livesey ISBN 0198769439 978-0198769439

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ISBN 10: 0198769439

ISBN 13:  978-0198769439

Author: Ruth Livesey
Why is it that so many of the best-loved novels of the Victorian era take place not in the steam-powered railway present in which they were published, but in the very recent past? Most works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot, and Hardy set action neither in the present nor in a definitively historical epoch but rather in a “just” past of collective memory, a vanishing but still tangible world moving by stage and mail coach. It is easy to overlook the fact that Jane Eyre, Bleak House, and Middlemarch, for example, are in this sense historical novels, recreating places and times that are just slipping from the horizon of here and now. Ruth Livesey brings to the surface the historical consciousness of such novels of the “just” past and explores how they convey an idea of a national belonging that can be experienced through a sense of local place.

Table of contents: 

1. Walter Scott and the Stage Coach Nation

2. Radicalism on the Cross-roads: William Hazlitt and William Cobbett

3. On the Move with Mr Pickwick

4. Halting at the Fingerpost: Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, and the Railway Future

5. Communicating with Jane Eyre: Stage Coach, Mail, and the Tory Nation

6. Driving Back with George Eliot: Locality and National Memory in Felix Holt, the Radical

Conclusion: The Empty Road in Dickens and Hardy

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