Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel

"Railway and novel infrastructure shared the task of getting nineteenth-century society moving in new ways. In canonical fiction by Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Nicola Kirkby reveals imaginative entanglement between new large-scale infrastructure and changing logistical possibilities of the novel in the first railway age"--Provided by publisher.

Nicola Kirkby held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London until 2023, investigating nineteenth-century infrastructure and literary culture, and now manages a diversifying data visualisation centre at City St George's, University of London. Her works include a forthcoming historical resource, Nineteenth-Century Communications, and, as Guest Editor, a special issue of 19 entitled "Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures" (November 2023).