Writing the stage coach nation : locality on the move in nineteenth-century British literature / Ruth Livesey.
Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot and Hardy and explains how they convey an idea of a nation...
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