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Portable modernisms : the art of traveling light / Emily Ridge.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culturePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474419604 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 809.304 23
LOC classification:
  • PR888.M63 R53 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
1. 'Living modernly's living quickly': Towards Travelling Light -- 2. 'A purse of her own': Women and Carriage -- 3. 'No one is safe from the beggar's pack': Portability and Precarity -- 4. 'Have you anything to declare?': Portable Selves on Trial.
Summary: 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.
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1. 'Living modernly's living quickly': Towards Travelling Light -- 2. 'A purse of her own': Women and Carriage -- 3. 'No one is safe from the beggar's pack': Portability and Precarity -- 4. 'Have you anything to declare?': Portable Selves on Trial.

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.

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