{"product_id":"strangers-and-the-enchantment-of-space-in-victorian-fiction-1830-1865-9781032249285","title":"Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830-1865","description":"Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, \u003cem\u003eStrangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830- 1865\u003c\/em\u003e explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the Industrial Revolution, transportation technologies, and globalization. While studies of nineteenth- century Britain tend to trace the rise of an aloof cosmopolitanism and distancing narrative strategies, this volume calls attention to the personalizing impulse in nineteenth- century literary form, investigating the deeply personal reflections on individual and national identities. In her book, Dr. Pond leads the reader through homes of the urban poor, wandering the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, loitering in suburban neighborhoods, riding the railway, and touring a country estate. Readers will experience how the ordinary can be enchanting, and how the mundane can be unexpected, discovering a new way of thinking about strangers and their influence on our lives. Through an examination of the short and long fictional forms of Martineau, Dickens, Bront?, Gaskell, and Braddon, this study locates the figure of the stranger as a powerful topos in the story of Victorian literature and the ethics of social relations. This book will be ideal for those seeking to understand the dynamics of the stranger in Victorian fiction as a figure for understanding the changing dynamics of social relations in England in the early nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristen Pond\u003c\/strong\u003e received her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She is currently Associate Professor in English at Baylor University. Kristen has been awarded a fellowship from the NEH (2019), and faculty research leave (2018) and grant (2015) from Baylor University. She has numerous articles published in academic journals and books, including \u003cem\u003eNineteenth-Century Prose\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), \u003cem\u003eVictorian Periodicals Review\u003c\/em\u003e (Spring 2020), \u003cem\u003eThe Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), \u003cem\u003eDickens Studies Annual\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), \u003cem\u003eStudies in the Novel\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), \u003cem\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eVictorian Review\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eBrontë Studies\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eVictorian Institute Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003e Nineteenth-Century Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003eVictorian Literature and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50398499864850,"sku":"9781032249285","price":197.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1dcdaac7-9cf7-4716-92f0-ff89c574a291.jpg?v=1729070427","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strangers-and-the-enchantment-of-space-in-victorian-fiction-1830-1865-9781032249285","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}