Mobility in the English novel from Defoe to Austen / Chris Ewers.
Ewers, Chris| Call Number | 823/.709 |
| Author | Ewers, Chris, author. |
| Title | Mobility in the English novel from Defoe to Austen / Chris Ewers. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2018). |
| Summary | In 1700 the fastest coach from London to Manchester took five days. By 1790 the development of the turnpike road system across England had reduced this figure to twenty-seven hours, and both the landscape and the ways in which people experienced it had been radically transformed. This revolution in transport came at the same time as the emergence of the novel as a dominant literary form in Britain. In this highly original reading of some of the major novelists of the long eighteenth century - Defoe, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne and Austen - Chris Ewers shows how these two developments interacted. He argues that this reconfiguration of local geography and the new experience of moving through space at speed had a profound effect upon the narrative and form of the novel, leaving its mark on genre, prose technique, the depiction of class and gender relations and the way texts are structured. It is no accident, he concludes, that the arrival of the novel, the literary form that uses life-as-a-journey as a master trope, is roughly co-terminous with the revolution of internal transport in Britain. CHRIS EWERS is a lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature at the University of Exeter |
| Subject | English fiction 18th century History and criticism. Transportation in literature. Transportation Social aspects Great Britain. |
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| Summary | In 1700 the fastest coach from London to Manchester took five days. By 1790 the development of the turnpike road system across England had reduced this figure to twenty-seven hours, and both the landscape and the ways in which people experienced it had been radically transformed. This revolution in transport came at the same time as the emergence of the novel as a dominant literary form in Britain. In this highly original reading of some of the major novelists of the long eighteenth century - Defoe, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne and Austen - Chris Ewers shows how these two developments interacted. He argues that this reconfiguration of local geography and the new experience of moving through space at speed had a profound effect upon the narrative and form of the novel, leaving its mark on genre, prose technique, the depiction of class and gender relations and the way texts are structured. It is no accident, he concludes, that the arrival of the novel, the literary form that uses life-as-a-journey as a master trope, is roughly co-terminous with the revolution of internal transport in Britain. CHRIS EWERS is a lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature at the University of Exeter |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2018). |
| Subject | English fiction 18th century History and criticism. Transportation in literature. Transportation Social aspects Great Britain. |
| Multimedia |