Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- The Transports of Fiction 1840-1940: An Introduction -- Part I: Transport in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction, 1840-1880 -- 1 Distance is Abolished: The Democratization and Erasure of Travel in William...
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Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- The Transports of Fiction 1840-1940: An Introduction -- Part I: Transport in Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction, 1840-1880 -- 1 Distance is Abolished: The Democratization and Erasure of Travel in William Makepeace Thackeray's Barry Lyndon -- 2 'A Perambulating Mass of Woollen Goods': Travelling Bodies in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Railway Journey -- 3 Death by Train: Spectral Technology and Dickens's Mugby Junction -- 4 Children On Board: Transoceanic Crossings in Victorian Literature -- 5 The Living Transport Machine: George Eliot's Middlemarch 6 'I saw a great deal of trouble amongst the horses in London': Anna Sewell's Black Beauty and the Victorian Cab Horse -- Part II: Transport in fin-de-siècle and Edwardian Fiction, 1880-1910 -- 7 The 'Freedom Machine': The New Woman and the Bicycle -- 8 'Buses should . . . inspire writers': Omnibuses in fin-de-siècle Short Stories and Journalism -- 9 Transport, Technology, and Trust: The 'Sustaining Illusion' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Nostromo -- 10 'Into the interstices of time': Speed and Perception in the Scientific Romance -- Part III: Transport in Modern Fiction, 1910-1940 11 Train(ing) Modernism: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and the Moving Locations of Queerness -- 12 'This frightful war': Trains as Settings of Disturbance and Dislocation in the First-World-War Fiction of D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield -- 13 From Tram to Black Maria: Transport in A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse -- 14 Driving Through a Changing Landscape: Car Travel in Inter-War Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index
