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Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s - by W Parkins (Hardcover)

Name: Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s - by W Parkins (Hardcover)
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SKU: 93373324
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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.
About the Author: WENDY PARKINS is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
198 Pages
Literary Criticism, Women Authors

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Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Mobility and Modernity crackles with new perspectives." - Charlotte MacDonald, Victoria University of Wellington

About the Author

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.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)

Weight: .75 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Sub-Genre: Women Authors

Genre: Literary Criticism

Number of Pages: 198

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Format: Hardcover

Author: W Parkins

Language: English

Street Date: November 27, 2008

TCIN: 93373324

UPC: 9780230525429

Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-9380

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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