This book examines cultural representations of women's experience
of the railway in the nineteenth century. Examining the
representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature
and culture of the 19th and early 20th century, this book explores
the extraordinary and unprecedented opportunities that the train
offered women. An emblem of the conquest of national and imperial
space and of the staggering advances of science and technology, the
train gave women a taste of its omnipotence, eventually becoming a
space of emancipation, transgression, but also fear for women. The
book brings together the sensation, mystery, realist, and early
modernist railway narratives by female and male authors, analyzing
women's trajectories within and beyond the city but also the
nation, as urban passengers, travellers, tourists, and colonists.
In texts by authors such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret
Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, Mary Ward, Flora Annie Steel, and Mona
Caird but also Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, the
ambiguous space of the railway highlights the artificiality of the
private/public divide, while giving rise to woman's impulse to
traverse boundaries, not only physically but also mentally and
emotionally. In the novels, short stories in periodicals, news
items and commentaries, essays, illustrations, and paintings
examined, trains become contact zones of multiple encounters, but
also battlefields of gender, class, and imperial ideology. The
first full length examination of texts by and about women which
explore the railway as a gendered space within a British, European,
and Imperial context. This book explores a variety of cultural
discourses which deal with women and the railway: fiction, poetry,
news stories and commentaries, essays, paintings, and
illustrations. It concentrates on many understudied writers of the
19th century. It includes 9 images to help illustrate the study.
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