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Mobility in the English Novel from Defoe to Austen (Hardcover)
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Mobility in the English Novel from Defoe to Austen (Hardcover)
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A lively exploration of the relation between the arrival of the
novel, the literary form that uses life-as-a-journey as its master
trope, and the transport revolution in eighteenth-century Britain.
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 themajor
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
noaccident, 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
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