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Limited access : transport metaphors and realism in the British novel, 1740-1860 /

"Limited Access employs the trope of reading as travel to consider questions of access, both symbolic and material, in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. The author draws on media studies and the history of books and examines work by authors including Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Takanashi, Kyoko, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: The transports of reading
  • Delivering narrative to consumer-readers : staging inclusion in Fielding's Tom Jones
  • Noisy vehicles and oversensitive readers : miscommunicating feeling in Sterne's A sentimental journey and Smollett's Humphry Clinker
  • Local history for distant readers : narrative transmission in Scott's The tales of my landlord
  • Information overload in industrial print culture : shortcuts to knowledge in Dickens's The Pickwick papers
  • The "Prae-railroadite" and the railway generation : sharing memories in Thackeray's Vanity fair
  • Conclusion: George Eliot and contingent access to literary history