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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 and of the staggering advances of science and technology, the train gave women a taste of its omnipotence, eventually becoming a space of emancipation, transgression, and fear for women. The book brings together the sensation, mystery, realist and early modernist railway narratives by female and male authors, analysing women's trajectories within and beyond the city and the nation, as urban passengers, travellers, tourists and colonists.In texts by authors such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, Mary Ward, Flora Annie Steel and Mona Caird as well as Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy and Henry James, the ambiguous space of the railway highlights the artificiality of the private/public divide, while giving rise to woman's impulse to traverse boundaries, not only physically but also mentally and emotionally. In the novels, short stories in periodicals, news items and commentaries, essays, illustrations and paintings examined, trains become contact zones of multiple encounters, but also battlefields of gender, class and imperial ideology. Key features: * The first full-length examination of texts by and about women which explore the railway as a gendered space within a British and European context *Explores a variety of cultural discourses which deal with women and the railway: fiction, poetry, news stories and commentaries, essays, paintings, and illustrations *Proposes a reconceptualization of the public/private binary *Concentrates on many understudied writers of the nineteenth century *Includes 9 images to help illustrate the study

English literature --- Railroad travel in literature. --- Women travelers in literature. --- Railroad travel --- Women travelers --- Travelers, Women --- Travelers --- Rail travel --- Railroads --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Transportation --- Travel --- Voyages and travels --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 1850-1815.

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Thematology --- Biography: 1800-1899 --- German literature: authors --- 82:396 --- 830 "18" --- German prose literature --- -German prose literature --- -Women travelers in literature --- Travelers in literature --- Authors, German --- -German authors --- German literature --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- -History and criticism --- Travel --- -Literatuur en feminisme --- 830 "18" Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- -82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- German authors --- Travelers' writings, German --- Women and literature --- Women travelers in literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History

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"Travel and Travail offers the reader a history of women's travel in the Early Modern period"--

English literature --- History of civilization --- travel --- journeys --- women [female humans] --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Travelers' writings, English --- Women travelers. --- English prose literature --- Women travelers in literature. --- English drama --- Travelers, Women --- Travelers --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Drama --- Fiction --- Thematology --- vrouwengeschiedenis --- drama [literary genre]

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Women travelers in literature --- Colonies in literature --- Travel in literature --- English prose literature --- English prose literature --- Feminism and literature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Prose anglaise --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique

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English prose literature --- Women travelers in literature --- English prose literature --- English prose literature --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Authorship --- Imperialism in literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History --- History --- Sex differences --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Historiography.