Table of Contents

1. Mobility and the Humanities 2. Genre on the road: the road movie as automobilities research 3. ‘Australia – Drive It Like You Stole It’: automobility as a medium of communication in settler colonial Australia 4. Mobility, exile, and native identity in the work of Edith Wharton 5. Mobilities of form 6. On writing portable place: George Eliot’s mobile Midlands 7. Moving around children’s fiction: agentic and impossible mobilities 8. ‘Driving-as-Event’: re-thinking the car journey 9. Travelling through the city: using life writing to explore individual experiences of urban travel c1840–1940 10. Rethinking Mobile Methods

About the Author

Peter Merriman is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, UK. His research focuses on histories and geographies of mobility, with a particular focus on driving in Britain. His previous books include: Mobility, Space and Culture (2012), Geographies of Mobilities (co-edited 2011), and The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (co-edited 2014).

Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. Having published widely in the fields of feminist theory and romance studies, her mobilities-related publications include Devolving Identities (ed.) (2000), Postcolonial Manchester (co-authored, 2013) and Drivetime (2016). She is currently Director for the Humanities at Lancaster’s Centre for Mobilities Research.