Reading Constellations : Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction /

This title uses Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James. Throughout its chapters, the monograph deploys the dialectical notion of the 'constellation' to read moments in novels in which past and present interpenetr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKee, Patricia, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
City and town life in literature
English fiction
Literature and society
Space and time in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading the Victorian city
  • Great Expectations: the narrative winks
  • London looking backward: our mutual friend
  • Scenes of reading in Jude the Obscure
  • Urban spaces "In the Cage."

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