The ideas in things : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Freedgood, Elaine
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Sujets:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Material culture in literature.
Material culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Culture matérielle dans la littérature.
Culture matérielle > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Material culture in literature
Material culture
Alltagsgegenstand > Motiv
Roman
Great Britain
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Reading things
  • Souvenirs of sadism: mahogany furniture, deforestations, and slavery in Jane Eyre
  • Coziness and its vicissitudes: checked curtains and global cotton markets in Mary Barton
  • Realism, fetishism, and genocide: negro head tobacco in and around Great Expectations
  • Toward a history of literary underdetermination: standardizing meaning in Middlemarch
  • Coda: Victorian thing culture and the way we read now.

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