Portable modernisms : the art of traveling light /
Emily Ridge.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
- 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture .
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
'Living modernly's living quickly': Towards Travelling Light -- 'A purse of her own': Women and Carriage -- 'No one is safe from the beggar's pack': Portability and Precarity -- 'Have you anything to declare?': Portable Selves on Trial. 1. 2. 3. 4.
This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.
9781474419604 (ebook)
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Modernism (Literature)