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Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s
Wendy Parkins
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Paperback. Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.
Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349357635
SKU
V9781349357635
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99-15
About Wendy Parkins
WENDY PARKINS is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the co-author, with Geoffrey Craig, of Slow Living (2006), the editor of Fashioning the Body Politic (2001) and has published a number of journal articles on women's modernity.
Reviews for Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s
"Mobility and Modernity crackles with new perspectives." - Charlotte MacDonald, Victoria University of Wellington