Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature

This is an inspiring collection whose chapters explore the thematic of the travelling body across a fascinating array of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present. The close readings lend important new insights to our understanding of human mobility and, as a consequence, the volume will appeal to those working in mobilities studies as well as literary scholars. -- Lynne Pearce, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University
This co-edited collection of essays stretches the research on the multiple intersections between body studies, migration and mobility studies in Anglophone literature and more generally speaking in the English-speaking world. Against the backdrop of a sanitary crisis that has shed a crude light on how somebodies have to stay put while others are forced to flee, this volume challenges our perceptions of how mobility, immobility, and everything in-between, is perceived, represented and interpreted. What emerges loud and clear is a poetics of corporeality at the crossroad of disciplines which contributes to a better understanding of the world we live in. -- Judith Misrahi-Barak, Associate Professor, English Department, Paul Valéry University of Montpellier