Peter Keating (London: Penguin, 2004).Įlizabeth Gaskell, ‘A Dark Night’s Work’ (1863), in Linda Hughes, ed., The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, vol. 273 subsequent references appear in parentheses in the text.Įlizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis (1864), in Cranford and Cousin Phillis, ed. Shirley Foster (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. Ian Carter, Railways and Culture in Britain: the Epitome of Modernity (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001)Īnd Michael Freeman, Railways and the Victorian Imagination (London: Yale University Press, 1999).Įlizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848), ed. On the wider cultural impact of the railway see Jack Simmons, The Victorian Railway (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995), pp. Ian Carter, ‘“The Lost Idea of a Train”: Looking for Britain’s Railway Novel’, Journal of Transport History 21.2 (2000): 117–39 35–43 (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007) See Matthew Beaumont, ‘The Railways and Literature: Realism and the Phantasmagoric’, in Ian Kennedy and Julian Treuherz, eds, The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam, pp. For other discussions of railways in mid-century British fiction, The most substantial assessment of railways in Victorian fiction is Nicholas Daly’s Literature, Technology and Modernity 1860–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. These themes register through the body in transit, which serves as a locus through which novelists articulate the alienating effects of modernity, and especially its production of a disorienting space but the production of space through the mobile body also unfolds new structures through which to understand the relationship between people and place in the modern nation. The experience and process of travel brings into view a new set of ideas about the connection between the individual and nation-state: the formation of a more connected nation is accompanied by a fear of disconnect between people and place. As we have seen in the introduction, the building of the railway network generated new ideas about the connected nation-place and in this chapter the focus turns to how the traveller’s experience of the railway journey is represented.
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