Overview
- Appeals to scholars in mobilities studies, geocriticism studies, and romance/critical love studies
- Foregrounds the importance of space, place, and mobility in understanding relationships
- Moves the study of mobility in the humanities beyond thematic readings
Part of the book series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture (SMLC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks—both literal and figurative— we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy. Working with diaries, journals and literary texts from the mid- to late-twentieth century, the book pursues this thesis through three phases of the lifecourse: courtship (broadly defined), the middle years of long-term relationships and bereavement. Building upon the author’s recent research on automobility, the text’s case studies reveal the crucial role played by many different types of transport—including walking—in defining our most enduring relationships. Conceptually, the book draws upon the writings of the philosopher, Henri Bergson, the anthropologist, Tim Ingold and the geographer, David Seamon, engaging with topical debates in cultural and emotional geography (especially work on landscape, memory and mourning), mobilities studies and critical love studies.
Reviews
“Pearce’s new book is a strikingly original reflection on how mobility is written through—and maps out—the life course of intimate relationships. (Ruth Livesey, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. She is also Director for the Humanities at Lancaster’s Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture
Authors: Lynne Pearce
Series Title: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23910-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23909-1Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23912-1Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23910-7Published: 09 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4838
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Creative Writing