Railways, Disjointed Mobility, and National Decline: Navigating George Chesney’s ‘The Battle of Dorking’
This article thinks through the imagined impact of railway collapse in George Chesney’s short story ‘The Battle of Dorking’ (1871). By interrogating the representation of railway infrastructure and mobilities in the first example of invasion-scare fiction, it reads a conflation between nation, empir...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2023-11-01
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| Online Access: | http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/9933/ |