Portable modernisms : the art of traveling light / Emily Ridge.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781474419604 (ebook)
- 809.304 23
- PR888.M63 R53 2017
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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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