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In the book review titled "Review: Limited Access: Transport Metaphors and Realism in the British Novel, 1740–1860, by Kyoko Takanashi," the reviewer discusses Kyoko Takanashi's exploration of the relationship between transport metaphors and realism in British novels during the 18th and 19th centuries. Takanashi argues that early realist novels used tropes of transport to set limits on readers' access to fictional landscapes, such as class, history, national politics, urbanization, and media cultures. The reviewer praises Takanashi's examination of how transport infrastructures and tropes intersected with shifting media landscapes to shape the realist novel, and highlights the chapters dedicated to Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and George Eliot as particularly insightful. While the reviewer acknowledges some unevenness in the book's focus, they ultimately conclude that Takanashi's study opens up new avenues for understanding the ways in which transport tropes and cultures influenced readers' engagement with fiction during this time period. [Extracted from the article]

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