It takes the average reader 4 hours and 49 minutes to read The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901 by Heidi Liedke
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This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as characterized by speed, work, and mechanized travel, this books asserts a counter-narrative in which certain writers embraced idleness in travel as a radical means to ‘re-subjectification’ and the assertion of a ‘late-Romantic’ sensibility. Attentive to the historical and literary continuities between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’,...
The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901 by Heidi Liedke is 279 pages long, and a total of 72,261 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901 aloud.
The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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