For all its industrial and technological heat, Victorian Britain remained a largely horse-drawn society. Focusing on the use of horse-drawn vehicles in Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel The Woman in White, this essay explores representations of city space, intra-urban mobility, connectivity and public transport in popular nineteenth-century fiction. Cabs, I argue, represent intriguing and paradoxical spaces, poised between public and private, continually on the move in the static city. I ask how literary figurations of horse cabs focus and negotiate anxieties associated with travel within Victorian cities. I also suggest that cabs -- vehicles for the fast and disreputable -- articulate new ways of occupying space.
London cabs, Wilkie Collins and The Woman in White
The journal of transport history ; 37 , 1 ; 64-80
2016
Article (Journal)
English
Local classification TIB: | 275/1910/4535/7000 | |
BKL: | 55.01 / 55.01 Geschichte des Verkehrswesens |
Emerald Group Publishing | 1998
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1954
|SAE Technical Papers | 1954
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1954