Ridge, Emily, 1983-

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)

PR888.M63 / R53 2017

809.304