Women and the railway, 1850-1915 /

Examining the representation of women in the spaces of the railway in literature and culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book explores the extraordinary and unprecedented opportunities that the train offered women. An emblem of the conquest of national and imperial space an...

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Main Author: Despotopoulou, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Geographies of Fear in the Age of Sensation
  • 2. Railway Speed
  • 3. Breaching National Borders: Rail Travel in Europe and Empire
  • 4. Railway Space and Time.