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Author: Anna Despotopoulou (Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture, University of Athens)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780748676941
ISBN 10: 0748676945
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 03 March 2015
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From geographies of fear to resistance, empowerment, agency and unbounded imaginative forays, the gendered literary railway spaces as they are configured in Anna Despotopoulou's study will, no doubt, engage the interest of gender studies and Victorian studies specialists as well as that of the general reading public. -- Reghina Dascal, The European English Messenger, 24.2Anyone interested in the cultural dimension of the railway will find this book of great interest. Some previous treatments of this topic (including my own) have had little enough to say on the gendering of the experience of technology and this enjoyable and well-researched study offers a valuable corrective. -- Nicholas Daly, Literature and HistoryOne of the strengths of Women and the Railway lies in the range of materials examined; those interested in the representation of railway travel in the period's journalism and literature (and not only in familiar texts like Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, but in many lesser-known fictional works as well) will be grateful for its author's comprehensive efforts. -- Tina Young Choi, Journal of Victorian Culture a very readable, well-researched, and, in places, humorous exploration of the way locomotion brought in new rules of circulation for men and women. -- Jane Stabler, Recent Studies in the Nineteenth CenturyDespotopoulou's study brings to light a fascinating and until-now forgotten fragment of gender history. -- Lois Burke, Edinburgh Napier University, NINETEENTH-CENTURY GENDER STUDIES, ISSUE 12.1
From geographies of fear to resistance, empowerment, agency and unbounded imaginative forays, the gendered literary railway spaces as they are configured in Anna Despotopoulou's study will, no doubt, engage the interest of gender studies and Victorian studies specialists as well as that of the general reading public. -- Reghina Dascal, The European English Messenger, 24.2Anyone interested in the cultural dimension of the railway will find this book of great interest. Some previous treatments of this topic (including my own) have had little enough to say on the gendering of the experience of technology and this enjoyable and well-researched study offers a valuable corrective. -- Nicholas Daly, Literature and HistoryOne of the strengths of Women and the Railway lies in the range of materials examined; those interested in the representation of railway travel in the period's journalism and literature (and not only in familiar texts like Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, but in many lesser-known fictional works as well) will be grateful for its author's comprehensive efforts. -- Tina Young Choi, Journal of Victorian Culture a very readable, well-researched, and, in places, humorous exploration of the way locomotion brought in new rules of circulation for men and women. -- Jane Stabler, Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century
Despotopoulou's study brings to light a fascinating and until-now forgotten fragment of gender history.--Lois Burke, Edinburgh Napier University NINETEENTH-CENTURY GENDER STUDIES, ISSUE 12.1 a very readable, well-researched, and, in places, humorous exploration of the way locomotion brought in new rules of circulation for men and women.--Jane Stabler Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century One of the strengths of Women and the Railway lies in the range of materials examined; those interested in the representation of railway travel in the period's journalism and literature (and not only in familiar texts like Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, but in many lesser-known fictional works as well) will be grateful for its author's comprehensive efforts. --Tina Young Choi Journal of Victorian Culture One of the finest of recent scholarly interventions in studies of the railway. --Victorian Studies, Vol 59, No 2 From geographies of fear to resistance, empowerment, agency and unbounded imaginative forays, the gendered literary railway spaces as they are configured in Anna Despotopoulou's study will, no doubt, engage the interest of gender studies and Victorian studies specialists as well as that of the general reading public. --Reghina Dascal, West University of Timisoara, Romania The European English Messenger, 24.2 Anyone interested in the cultural dimension of the railway will find this book of great interest. Some previous treatments of this topic (including my own) have had little enough to say on the gendering of the experience of technology and this enjoyable and well-researched study offers a valuable corrective. --Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin Literature and History One of the finest of recent scholarly interventions in studies of the railway, Anna Despotopoulou's Women and the Railway, 1850-1915 is an exception to this trend because of its decision to push literary analysis of the Victorian period toward postmodern theories of space and geography --Daniel Martin Victorian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 2. Winter 2017
Author Information
Anna Despotopoulou is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Athens, Greece, where she teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century English fiction. She is the co-editor of Henry James and the Supernatural (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Transforming Henry James (Cambridge Scholars, 2013), and Reconstructing Pain and Joy (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) and author of many articles on Victorian literature and culture.
