Down from London: seaside reading in the railway age.

In the first hundred years of the UK rail network, the seaside figures as a nerve centre, managing and making visible the period's complex interplay between health, death, gender and sexuality. This monograph discusses around 130 novels of the railway age to show how the seaside infiltrates a d...

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Main Author: OULTON, CAROLYN W. DE LA L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS, 2022.
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 91.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:In the first hundred years of the UK rail network, the seaside figures as a nerve centre, managing and making visible the period's complex interplay between health, death, gender and sexuality. This monograph discusses around 130 novels of the railway age to show how the seaside infiltrates a diverse range of literature, subverting the boundaries between high and low literary culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-255) and index.
ISBN:9781800855281
1800855281

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