1. The relationship between mobility and nationhood is implicit in works such as James Buzard, Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels (Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005), and more directly addressed in considerations of global circulation such as
2. John Plotz’s, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008)
3. and Richard Menke’s, Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008). More recently, mobility has come to form a distinct new direction of Victorian literary criticism which explicitly centres transport modes, networks, and structures in discussions of nineteenth century fiction:
4. see Jonathan H. Grossman, Charles Dickens’s Networks: Public Transport and the Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012);
5. Ruth Livesey, ‘Communicating with Jane Eyre: Stagecoach, Mail and the Tory Nation’, Victorian Studies 53.4 (2011): 615–38;