Railways, Disjointed Mobility, and National Decline: Navigating George Chesney’s ‘The Battle of Dorking'.

This article thinks through the imagined impact of railway collapse in George Chesney’s short story ‘The Battle of Dorking’ (1871). By interrogating the representation of railway infrastructure and mobilities in the first example of invasion-scare fiction, it reads a conflation between nation, empir...

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Published in:	19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 35; pp. 1 - 22
Main Author:	Barnes, Alicia
Format:	Article
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2023
Subjects:	Railroad design & construction Infrastructure (Economics) Joint use of railroad facilities Railroads Nineteenth century
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost