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Mobility in the English Novel fills an important gap itself by demonstrating how 'the extended prose narratives of the 1700s mirror the extended range of spatial experience that accompanied the transport revolution' (p. 190). REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

This book does much to unearth the imprint left by transit systems on the writing of the long eighteenth century, and is elegant in its execution. How novelists responded to the emerging mobilities of their decade, and the corresponding modes of movement of their characters, is at last given the attention it has been waiting for. * THE CAMBRIDGE QUARTERLY * Fresh vistas are here to discover in this busy, enthusiastic book. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * Fills an important gap itself by demonstrating how 'the extended prose narratives of the 1700s mirror the extended range of spatial experience that accompanied the transport revolution' (p. 190). * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES * Mobility in the English Novel provides a compelling complement to recent studies of global mobility . . . demonstrating, through its series of sensitive, imaginative arguments, the literary origins of the modern freedom of movement that many people are missing acutely right now, and some have never really had. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *

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