Limited Access : Transport Metaphors and Realism in the British Novel, 1740-1860.
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- 9780813947594
- 823.009
- PR823 .T353 2022
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Transports of Reading -- 1. Delivering Narrative to Consumer-Readers: Staging Inclusion in Fielding's Tom Jones -- 2. Noisy Vehicles and Oversensitive Readers: Miscommunicating Feeling in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Smollett's Humphry Clinker -- 3. Local History for Distant Readers: Narrative Transmission in Scott's The Tales of My Landlord -- 4. Information Overload in Industrial Print Culture: Shortcuts to Knowledge in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers -- 5. The "Prae-railroadite" and the Railway Generation: Sharing Memories in Thackeray's Vanity Fair -- Conclusion: George Eliot and Contingent Access to Literary History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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