Portable Modernisms

Emily Ridge is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Education University of Hong Kong.

• Introduction1. ‘Living Modernly's Living Quickly’: Towards Travelling Light 2. ‘A Purse of Her Own’: Women and Carriage3. ‘No one Is Safe from the Beggar’s Pack’: Portability and Precarity4. ‘Have You Anything to Declare?’: Portable Selves on TrialConclusion

[...] makes a significant contribution to modernist studies through elegant consideration of the ‘new culture of portability in the early twentieth century’ and its effects on modernist approaches to fiction (p. 4).