Transport in British Fiction: Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940 - Hardcover

by A. Gavin (Editor), A. Humphries (Editor)

Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive.

Author Biography

Benjamin Bateman, California State University, USA Elizabeth Bleicher, Ithaca College, USA Jen Cadwallader, Randolph-Macon College, USA Adrienne E. Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Andrew F. Humphries, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Margaret Linley, Simon Fraser University, Canada Peter Lowe, Bader International Study Centre, UK Paul March-Russell, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Charlotte Mathieson, University of Warwick, UK Courtney Salvey, University of Kent, UK Lorna Shelley, University of Wolverhampton, UK Janet Stobbs Wright, University of CEU Cardenal Herrera in Elche, Spain Tamara S. Wagner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh, UK