Perspectives on mobility / edited by Ingo Berensmeyer and Christoph Ehland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Movement and Mobility: An Introduction; Part One Movement and the Making of Space; The Total Mobility of the Dime Novel Detective; Mapping Movement: Reimagining Cartography in The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet; Reality Mining and Meaningful Motion Patterns: A Critical GIS for Literary Studies; Places of Beginning: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau's Walden and Douglass's Narrative; Subjective Spaces -- Spatial Subjectivities: Movement and Mobility in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Ian McEwan's Saturday; Part Two Conceptual Spaces.

Patterns of Global Mobility in Early Modern English Literature: Fictions of the SeaMobility, Movement, Method and Life in G.H. Lewes; Unpicking Time-Space: Towards New Apprehensions of Movement-Space; On the Move: Discursive Integration of New Mobility Technologies through Poetry; Automobility in Poetry: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of 'mobile worlds'. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultura.

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