Knowing the Past : Victorian Literature and Culture /
To what extent is it possible to know the past or to know other cultures? Can one describe the past without imposing one's own cultural, political, social, or personal preconceptions? Testing the current skepticism that insists that it is impossible not to read one's own moment onto other...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Text vs. hypertext: seeing the Victorian object as in itself it really is / Gerhard Joseph
- The golden bough and the unknowable / Christopher Herbert
- Daniel Deronda: a new epistemology / George Levine
- Walter Pater's impressionism and the form of historical revival Carolyn Williams
- Arnold and the authorization of criticism / Herbert F. Tucker
- Aesthetics, ethics, and unreadable acts in George Eliot / Jonathan Loesberg
- The structure of anxiety in political economy and Hard times / Mary Poovey
- How to be a benefactor without any money: the chill of welfare in Great expectations / Bruce Robbins
- Tracking the sentimental eye / Judith Stoddart
- Knowing and telling in Dickens's retrospects / Rosemarie Bodenheimer
- Inside the shark's mouth: William Lovett's struggle for political language / Margery Sabin
- Knowing a life: Edith Simcox, Sat est vixisse? / Gillian Beer.