Ruth Livesey: 2 books
Writing the Stage Coach Nation
Locality on the Move in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Why is it that so many of the best-loved novels of the Victorian era take place not in the steam-powered railway present in which they were published, but in the very recent past? Most works by Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, and Hardy set action neither in the present nor in a definitively historical epoch...
by Ruth Livesey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens. Bringing together political theorists, historians, and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American democracy in nineteenth-century...