Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s: Women Moving Dangerously - Hardcover

by W. Parkins (Author)

Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.

Author Biography

WENDY PARKINS is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the co-author, with Geoffrey Craig, of Slow Living (2006), the editor of Fashioning the Body Politic (2001) and has published a number of journal articles on women's modernity.