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Cover -- Literature In A Time Of Migration: British Fiction And The Movement Of People, 1815-1876 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- Introduction: Fiction In A Time Of Migration -- 'an Age Of Increased Mobility' -- 'mov[e]able Types' And The World Of Print -- Malthusian Displacements -- The Contiguous Imagination -- The Country, The City, The World -- Literature In A Time Of Migration -- Part One: Experiments In Fiction And Space, 1810s To 1840s -- Chapter 1: Walter Scott's Long-distance Fiction: Guy Mannering And The Gypsy Scott's Eccentric Characters And The Origins Of Gypsies -- Two Kinds Of Feelings For Place: Being At Home And Being In Exile -- The Geographical Imaginary In Guy Mannering: A Way Of Reading -- A World Of Print -- The Afterlife Of Meg Merrilies: Bishop Heber's Narrative Of A Journey (1828) -- Chapter 2: John Galt's 'whole Art Of Colonization' Sound, Voice, Space -- Introduction -- John Galt, Regional Novelist -- 'tales Of The West': Theoretical Histories -- 'a Gude Scotch Tongue': Voice And Power -- How To Listen: The Steam-boat(1821) -- Galt Goes To Canada The 'bandana' Essays And The Founding Of Guelph -- The Sound Of Colonization -- Native Sounds: 'american Traditions' And 'canadian Sketches' -- Silence In Another Key: 'the Seamstress' -- Chapter 3: Transported!: Edward Gibbon Wakefield And Charlotte Brontë Imagine A Colony -- Abduction! -- Systematic Colonization -- Glass Town -- Chapter 4: 'infinite Kindness': Distant Intimacy In The Transatlantic Print Worlds Of Mary Russell Mitford And James T. Fields -- Our Village -- The Transatlantic Village -- Part Two: The Mid-century Novel Chapter 5: The Political Picaresque: Thomas Martin Wheeler's Sunshine And Shadow -- To Move Or Not To Move? -- Miniaturization And Enlargement: The Scales Of The Chartist Land Plan -- Reading Sunshine And Shadow -- 'a Light In The Gloom' -- Chapter 6: Dickens's National Novel: On Settling And Being Unsettled In Bleak Ho