Transport in British Fiction

Notes on the Contributors The Transports of Fiction 1840-1940: An Introduction; Adrienne E. Gavin and Andrew F. Humphries PART I: TRANSPORT IN EARLY AND MID-VICTORIAN FICTION, 1840-1880 1. Distance is Abolished: The Democratization and Erasure of Travel in William Makepeace Thackeray's Barry Lyndon ; Elizabeth Bleicher 2. 'A Perambulating Mass of Woollen Goods': Bodies in Transit in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Railway Journey; Charlotte Mathieson 3. Death by Train: Spectral Technology and Dickens's Mugby Junction ; Jen Cadwallader 4. Children On Board: Transoceanic Crossings in Victorian Literature; Tamara S. Wagner 5. The Living Transport Machine: George Eliot's Middlemarch ; Margaret Linley 6. 'I saw a great deal of trouble amongst the horses in London': Anna Sewell's Black Beauty and the Victorian Cab Horse; Adrienne E. Gavin PART II: TRANSPORT IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE AND EDWARDIAN FICTION, 1880-1910 7. The 'Freedom Machine': The New Woman and the Bicycle; Lena Wånggren 8. 'Buses should...inspire writers': Omnibuses in fin-de-siècle Short Stories and Journalism; Lorna Shelley 9. Transport, Technology, and Trust: The 'Sustaining Illusion' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Nostromo ; Courtney Salvey 10. 'Into the interstices of time': Speed and Perception in the Scientific Romance; Paul March-Russell PART III: TRANSPORT IN MODERN FICTION, 1910-1940 11. Train(ing) Modernism: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and the Moving Locations of Queerness; Benjamin Bateman 12. 'This frightful war': Trains as Settings of Disturbance and Dislocation in the First World War Fiction of D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield; Andrew F. Humphries 13. From Tram to Black Maria: Transport in A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse; Janet Stobbs Wright 14. Driving Through a Changing Landscape: Car Travel in Inter-War Fiction; Peter Lowe Bibliography Index