Living the Global Transport Network in Great Expectations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10866770 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grossman Grossman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.57.2.225 |
| OpenAlex | W2156645291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Great Expectations (1860–61) offers a lesson in what it meant to live through the nineteenth century’s global revolution in transportation. The narrating protagonist Pip, looking back from 1860, structures his story partly around his recognition that he was born into an increasingly connected global network. From a first-person perspective, unknown activity at a distance—such as that of the convict Magwitch in Australia—turns out to be synchronically consequential. Rather than discovering, however, the fragmentation of an unknowable world, the narrator learns from the collocation and interchangeability of the transport system’s passengers. These help to contribute to the development of Pip’s limited third-person view of himself, from which the narrator relays his story as a networked subject
Art · Convict · Epistemology · Global network · Interchangeability · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Telecommunications · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |