Davidson, Ian (2015) Motion and mobility in the realist novels of Philip K Dick. Literary Geographies, 1 (1). pp. 24-41.
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Abstract
This essay explores the ways that ideas of motion and mobility support readings of Philip K Dick's early novels that take full account of the changing geographical context. They are set during a period of rapid suburban expansion, the building of the interstate and the spread of automobility through car ownership, and their characters frequently exist in a state between continuity through conformity and the potential for change. The open ended forms of the novels reflect a world around Dick that was still under construction, and where alternative realities can be glimpsed between incomplete materialities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | automobility; suburban; materiality; California; nineteen fifties; |
| Subjects: | Q300 English studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Ian Davidson |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2015 12:30 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 05:32 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/24758 |
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