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Limited Access - Transport Metaphors and Realism in the British Novel, 1740-1860 (Hardcover)
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Limited Access - Transport Metaphors and Realism in the British Novel, 1740-1860 (Hardcover)
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A recurrent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British
fiction compares reading to traveling and asserts that the
pleasures of novel-reading are similar to the joys of a carriage
journey. Kyoko Takanashi points to how these narratives also,
however, draw attention to the limits of access often experienced
in travel, and she demonstrates the ways in which the realist
novel, too, is marked by issues of access both symbolic and
material. Limited Access draws on media studies and the history of
books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned
with the inclusivity of readers. Examining works by Henry Fielding,
Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace
Thackeray, and George Eliot, Takanashi shows how novelists employed
metaphors of transport to constantly reassess what readers could
and could not access. She gives serious attention to marginalized
readers figured within the text, highlighting their importance and
how writers were concerned about the "limited access" of readers to
their novels. Discussions of transport allowed novelists to think
about mediation, and, as this study shows, these concerns about
access became part of the rise of the novel and the history of
realism in a way that literary history has not yet recognized.
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