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'A moving and a moving on' : mobility, space, and the nation in Charles Dicken's Bleak House
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Mathieson, Charlotte Eleanor (2012) 'A moving and a moving on' : mobility, space, and the nation in Charles Dicken's Bleak House. English, Volume 61 (Number 235). pp. 395-405. doi:10.1093/english/efs043 ISSN 0013-8215.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efs043
Abstract
This article argues that despite apparently being the most ‘national’ of his novels, Bleak House is actively engaged with mid-nineteenth-century global travel culture and that reading the text through its mobile structures offers a productive framework through which to reconsider the novel's nation-building practices. It explores the relationship between space, mobility, and social relations in the novel, reading Dickens's employment of mobile structures in the text as evidence of a deep anxiety about the preserve of national place in an era of global modernity and revealing the impossibility of denying Britain's inextricable connection to the modern world.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | English | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0013-8215 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 61 | ||||
Number: | Number 235 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 395-405 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/english/efs043 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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