The Mystery of a Hansom Cab as Spatial Artefact: Exploring Class and the Spatial Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Australia's Favourite Whodunnit.
Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab has long been celebrated for its portrayal of the spaces and places of late-nineteenth century Melbourne. In this article, we seek to interrogate the relationship between the spatiality of Hume's Melbourne and social class. In particular, we employ a theoret...
| Publicado en: | Australian Literary Studies Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 48 - 71 |
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