The construction of the railways had a great impact on British life and British fiction—particularly on how people judged time and distance. In which of the following novels does the difference between time and distance, as clocked by railways, appear specifically?

MCQs on the ways in which the Victorian novel came to grapple with ideas and issues of that time period. And the methods by which the novels of this age represented (and intervened in) social, political, scientific, philosophical, and cultural concerns.