Victorian structures : architecture, society, and narrative /

"Although Victorian novels often feature lengthy descriptions of the buildings where characters live, work, and pray, we may not always notice the stories these buildings tell. But when we do pay attention, we find these buildings offer more than evocative background settings. Victorian Structu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffith, Jody, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Colección:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Architecture and literature.
Architecture in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 19th century.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Architecture et littérature.
Architecture dans la littérature.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Architecture and literature
Architecture in literature
English fiction
Literature and society
Narration (Rhetoric)
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "All men are builders": Victorian Structures
  • 1. Within the Walls: Freedom and Obedience in Little Dorrit
  • 2. Constructing Novel Time in Ordinary Time: The Architectural Structure of Eliot's Realism
  • 3. "As We Lay Stone on Stone": Mediating the Past in The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • 4. "Modern Thought ... in Such Decrepit and Superseded Chambers": Disintegrating Structures in Jude the Obscure
  • Conclusion: "The Action of the Imagination": Building Perceptions of Truth.

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