Chris Ewers (Author)

Mobility in the English Novel from Defoe to Austen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 233
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781783272969
• ISBN-10: 1783272961
• Artikelnr.: 49677901

Autorenporträt

Chris Ewers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mobility and the eighteenth-century novel Travelling by sea
and land in Robinson Crusoe Tom Jones and the epic of mobility Smollett and
the changing landscape of the ramble Sterne and the invention of speed
Crash: Sentimental journeys and alternative mobilities Northanger Abbey
and the Austen's 'wandering story' Conclusion Bibliography