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Author:   Ann Martin ,  Christopher Townsend
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
Imprint:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781683933458

ISBN 10:   1683933451
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   11 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Are We There Yet? A Materialist Tour by Motor Car through British Interwar Literature Chris Townsend (Independent Scholar) and Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Part One 1. The Car and the Crowd in Early Motor Racing Arthur Rose (University of Exeter, UK) 2. Crawling Through No-Man's Land: Exhilaration, Endurance, and Exhaustion in Wartime Ambulance Accounts Meg Albrinck (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) 3. Cars within Carriages: Mrs. Dalloway and Queen Alexandra’s Rose Day Drive Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Part Two 4. The Car in the Hat: A Hispano-Suiza H6 as Diabolus ex machina in Michael Arlen’s The Green Hat Chris Townsend (Independent Scholar) 5. Gaining Speed but Losing Direction: Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Canada) 6. Love and Recklessness: Speed in To the North Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Canada) Part Three 7. Cars and Girls: The Gendered Allure of Small Sports Cars, Risk, and Female Autonomy in Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North and on the Race-Track in the 1930s Daniela Georgieva (Royal Holloway University, UK) 8. Autogeddon or Autotopia? D. H. Lawrence, Stella Gibbons, and Clashing Conceptions of Modern (Auto)mobility Marlene A. Briggs (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9. An Automotive Passage to India Zena Meadowsong (Independent Scholar) Part Four: 10. Thwarted Automobility and the Imperial Road in Jean Rhys’s Writing Janet Neigh (Pennsylvania State University, US) 11. The Motor Car as Modernist Time Machine: John Piper’s Oxon and Heterochronic Time Sarah Watson (Independent Scholar) Index About the Contributors

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Ann Martin is associate professor in the Department of English at University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Chris Townsend is independent scholar, freelance writer on the arts, and curator.

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