Reed, ‘English Imperialism and the Unacknowledged Crime of The Moonstone’, Clio 2.3 (1973): 281–90 This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Through this, the mobility of the body serves to produce the place of the nation, and make sense of its relationship with a global landscape. At the smaller-scale level of representations of journeys, bodies on the move are centred as sites through which issues of modern mobility are negotiated: the gendered and classed politics of mobility produce different constellations of bodies and space through which to contend with issues around the relationship between the place of the nation and the global landscape in which it is located. At the wider-scale of the novels’ narrative structures journeys map out space, creating networks of people and place that respond to the changes of modernity through which new relationships between space, time and distance were taking effect.

I have suggested that in amid a concern with the state of the nation is an accompanying preoccupation with the space of the nation: journeys work to construct a mobile geography of Britain and its global interrelations through which issues of national, continental, and imperial identities manifest as deeply implicated within place and space. Throughout this book I have explored the ways in which mobility in the Victorian novel operates to produce the place of the nation.

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