The ideas in things : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel /
While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make con...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels--the mahogany furnitur. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 196 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-186) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226261546 0226261549 1282754017 9781282754010 9786612754012 661275401X |