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PalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCulture GeneralEditor:JosephBristow,ProfessorofEnglish,UCLA Editorial Advisory Board: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, University of London; JosephineMcDonagh,KingsCollege,London;YopiePrins,UniversityofMichigan; LindsaySmith,UniversityofSussex;MargaretD.Stetz,UniversityofDelaware;Jenny BourneTaylor,UniversityofSussex PalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCultureisanewmonographseriesthat aimstorepresentthemostinnovativeresearchonliteraryworksthatwereproduced in the English-speaking world from the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the fin de siècle.Attentivetothehistoricalcontinuitiesbetween‘Romantic’and‘Victorian’,the serieswillfeaturestudiesthathelpscholarshiptoreassessthemeaningoftheseterms during a centurymarked by diverse cultural, literary,andpolitical movements. The mainaimoftheseriesistolookattheincreasinginfluenceoftypesofhistoricismon ourunderstandingofliteraryformsandgenres.Itreflectstheshiftfromcriticaltheory toculturalhistorythathasaffectednotonlytheperiod1800–1900butalsoeveryfield within the discipline of English literature. All titles in the series seek to offer fresh critical perspectives and challenging readings of both canonical and non-canonical writingsofthisera. Titlesinclude: KatharinaBoehm BODIESANDTHINGSINNINETEENTH-CENTURYLITERATUREANDCULTURE KatharinaBoehm CHARLESDICKENSANDTHESCIENCESOFCHILDHOOD PopularMedicine,ChildHealthandVictorianCulture LuisaCalèandPatriziaDiBello(editors) ILLUSTRATIONS,OPTICSANDOBJECTSINNINETEENTH-CENTURYLITERARYAND VISUALCULTURES DeirdreColemanandHilaryFraser(editors) MINDS,BODIES,MACHINES,1770–1930 EleanorCourtemanche THE‘INVISIBLEHAND’ANDBRITISHFICTION,1818–1860 AdamSmith,PoliticalEconomy,andtheGenreofRealism StefanoEvangelista BRITISHAESTHETICISMANDANCIENTGREECE Hellenism,Reception,GodsinExile TrishFerguson(editor) VICTORIANTIME Technologies,Standardizations,Catastrophes MargotFinn,MichaelLobbanandJennyBourneTaylor(editors) LEGITIMACY AND ILLEGITIMACY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LAW, LITERATURE ANDHISTORY AdrienneE.GavinandAndrewF.Humphries(editors) TRANSPORTINBRITISHFICTION TechnologiesofMovement,1840–1940 JamesGrande WILLIAMCOBBETT,THEPRESSANDRURALENGLAND RadicalismandtheFourthEstate,1792–1835 F.ElizabethGray(editor) WOMENINJOURNALISMATTHEFINDESIÈCLE ‘MakingaNameforHerself’ JasonDavidHallandAlexMurray(editors) DECADENTPOETICS LiteratureandFormattheBritishFindeSiécle YvonneIvory THEHOMOSEXUALREVIVALOFRENAISSANCESTYLE,1850–1930 StephanKarschay DEGENERATION,NORMATIVITYANDTHEGOTHICATTHEFIN-DE-SIÈCLE ColinJones,JosephineMcDonaghandJonMee(editors) CHARLESDICKENS,ATALEOFTWOCITIESANDTHEFRENCHREVOLUTION JockMacleod LITERATURE,JOURNALISM,ANDTHEVOCABULARIESOFLIBERALISM PoliticsandLetters1886–1916 KirstenMacLeod FICTIONSOFBRITISHDECADENCE HighArt,PopularWritingandtheFindeSiècle KristineMoruziandMichelleJ.Smith(editors) COLONIALGIRLHOODINLITERATURE,CULTUREANDHISTORY,1840–1950 SeanO’Toole HABITINTHEENGLISHNOVEL,1850–1900 LivedEnvironments,PracticesoftheSelf TinaO’Toole THEIRISHNEWWOMAN VirginiaRichter LITERATUREAFTERDARWIN HumanBeastsinWesternFiction1859–1939 LauraRotunno POSTALPLOTSINBRITISHFICTION,1840–1898 ReaddressingCorrespondenceinVictorianCulture DeborahShappleSpillman BRITISHCOLONIALREALISMINAFRICA InalienableObjects,ContestedDomains LaurenceTalairach-Vielmas FAIRYTALES,NATURALHISTORYANDVICTORIANCULTURE PalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCulture SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–333–97700–2(hardback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddress belowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England Transport in British Fiction Technologies of Movement, 1840–1940 Editedby Adrienne E. Gavin EmeritusProfessorofEnglishLiteratureand HonoraryDirector,InternationalCentreforVictorianWomenWriters(ICVWW), CanterburyChristChurchUniversity,UK Andrew F. Humphries SeniorLecturerinEnglishandDramaEducation, CanterburyChristChurchUniversity,UK Selection,introductionandeditorialmatter©AdrienneE.GavinandAndrew F.Humphries2015 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-49903-5 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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To Dewayne, Laura, Demia, and Riley for their love and enthusiasm on all the forms of transport that got us here AG With thanks to my wife Caroline for her continued support and to my children Gemma and Daniel AH This page intentionally left blank Contents NotesonContributors ix TheTransportsofFiction1840–1940:AnIntroduction 1 AdrienneE.GavinandAndrewF.Humphries Part I TransportinEarlyandMid-VictorianFiction, 1840–1880 1 DistanceisAbolished:TheDemocratizationandErasureof TravelinWilliamMakepeaceThackeray’sBarryLyndon 29 ElizabethBleicher 2 ‘APerambulatingMassofWoollenGoods’:Travelling BodiesintheMid-Nineteenth-CenturyRailwayJourney 44 CharlotteMathieson 3 DeathbyTrain:SpectralTechnologyandDickens’sMugby Junction 57 JenCadwallader 4 ChildrenOnBoard:TransoceanicCrossingsinVictorian Literature 69 TamaraS.Wagner 5 TheLivingTransportMachine:GeorgeEliot’sMiddlemarch 84 MargaretLinley 6 ‘Isawagreatdealoftroubleamongstthehorsesin London’:AnnaSewell’sBlackBeautyandtheVictorianCab Horse 101 AdrienneE.Gavin Part II Transportinfin-de-siècleandEdwardian Fiction,1880–1910 7 The‘FreedomMachine’:TheNewWomanandtheBicycle 123 LenaWånggren vii viii Contents 8 ‘Busesshould...inspirewriters’:Omnibusesinfin-de-siècle ShortStoriesandJournalism 136 LornaShelley 9 Transport,Technology,andTrust:The‘SustainingIllusion’ inJosephConrad’sHeartofDarknessandNostromo 151 CourtneySalvey 10 ‘Intotheintersticesoftime’:SpeedandPerceptioninthe ScientificRomance 167 PaulMarch-Russell Part III TransportinModernFiction,1910–1940 11 Train(ing)Modernism:VirginiaWoolf,E.M.Forster,and theMovingLocationsofQueerness 185 BenjaminBateman 12 ‘Thisfrightfulwar’:TrainsasSettingsofDisturbanceand DislocationintheFirst-World-WarFictionofD.H. LawrenceandKatherineMansfield 199 AndrewF.Humphries 13 FromTramtoBlackMaria:TransportinAPintoSeethe PeepshowbyF.TennysonJesse 220 JanetStobbsWright 14 DrivingThroughaChangingLandscape:CarTravelin Inter-WarFiction 235 PeterLowe Bibliography 250 Index 264 Contributors BenjaminBatemanisAssociateProfessorofEnglishandWomen’s,Gen- der, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at California State University, Los Angeles. HisarticleshaveappearedinModernFictionStudies,HenryJamesReview, Twentieth-CenturyLiterature,andStudiesinAmericanCulture.Herecently completed a book manuscript entitled A Modernist Guide to Queer Sur- vival,whichfocusesonVirginiaWoolf,OscarWilde,HenryJames,E.M. Forster,andWillaCather. ElizabethBleicherisAssociateProfessorofEnglish,AcademicDirector of the Exploratory Program, and Coordinator of English Education at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She teaches and conducts research on Victorian literature and culture, as well as pedagogy methods and student engagement in secondary and higher education. Her previous researchhasbeenpublishedinVictorianLiteratureandCulture,Teaching andTeacherEducation,andHonorsinPractice,amongotherjournals. Jen Cadwallader is Assistant Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, USA where she teaches Victorian literature and children’s literature. Most recently, she has published chapters in Victorian Literature: 21st Century Perspectives (2014) and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden: A Children’s Classic at 100 (2011), and an article on A Christmas Carol in the Victorians Institute Journal (2012). HerresearchfocusesonghoststoriesandpopularbeliefintheVictorian period. Adrienne E. Gavin is Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Co- founderandHonoraryDirectoroftheInternationalCentreforVictorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. SheisauthorofDarkHorse:ALifeofAnnaSewell(2004),theproposalfor whichwontheBiographers’ClubPrize2000,andhasproducedcritical editionsofCarolineClive’sPaulFerroll(2008),HenrydeVereStacpoole’s The Blue Lagoon (2010), C. L. Pirkis’s The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, LadyDetective(2010),andAnnaSewell’sBlackBeauty(2012).Sheisedi- tor of The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, MedievaltoContemporary(2012)andRobertCormier(2012),andco-editor ix
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