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Bibliography - criticism and theory

This page lists a selection of books from my working bibliography that are significant to my research, and indicative of the scope of the project.

  • Ainley, Rosa, ed. New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender. London: Routledge, 1998.

  • Buzard, James. The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918. Oxford: Clarendon Pres, 1993.
  • Carter, Ian. Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
  • Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven F. Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

  • Clark, Steve, ed. Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit. London: Zed Books, 1999.
  • Colomina, Beatriz, ed. Sexuality and Space. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.
  • Duncan, Nancy, ed. Bodyspace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.

  • Freeman, Michael. Railways and the Victorian Imagination. London: Yale University Press, 1999.

  • Gilbert, Helen and Anna Johnston eds. In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
  • Gilroy, Amanda, ed. Romantic Geographies: Discourses of Travel, 1775-1844. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
  • Grosz, Elizabeth. Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

  • Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

  • Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space, 1880 – 1918. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.

  • Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford:

    Blackwell, 1991.

  • Massey, Doreen. For Space. London: Sage, 2005.

  • McDowell, Linda. Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999.

  • Michie, Helena. Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

  • Michie, Helena and Ronald R. Thomas, eds. Nineteenth Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century. London: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

  • Mills, Sara. Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism. London: Routledge, 1991.

  • Mingay, G. E., ed. The Victorian Countryside. Vol. 1. London, Boston, and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.

  • Morris, R. J. and Richard Rodger, eds. The Victorian City: A Reader in British Urban History, 1820-1914. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.

  • Nord, Deborah Epstein. Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City. London: Cornell University Press, 1995.

  • Parsons, Deborah L. Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  • Pile, Steve and Nigel Thrift, eds. Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation. London: Routledge, 1995.

  • Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge: London and New York, 1992.

  • Rose, Gillian. Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993.

  • Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century. 1977. Foreword by Alan Trachtenberg. Leamington Spa/ Hamburg/ New York: Berg, 1986.

  • Simmons, Jack. The Victorian Railway. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. (1991).

  • Smith, Neil. “Homeless/global: Scaling Places.” In Bird et al., Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change. London: Routledge, 1993.

  • Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: A History of Walking. London: Verso, 2001.

  • Tambling, Jeremy. Going Astray: Dickens and London. Edinburgh: Pearson, 2009.

  • Thacker, Andrew. Moving through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003.

  • Wallace, Anne D. Walking, Literature and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993

  • Withey, Lynne. Grand Tours and Cook’s Tours: A History of Leisure Travel 1750 to 1915. London: Aurum Press, 1998.

  • Zlotnick, Susan. Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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 Schivelbusch

 

 

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 Wanderlust