Gossip and subversion in nineteenth-century British fiction : echo's economies /
Jan Gordon rewrites the history of nineteenth-century British fiction by disclosing a liberatory 'information superhighway' in the presence of gossip and its practitioners. He begins by suggesting the simultaneous dependence upon the repression of uncorroborated eye-witness testimony in th...
| Основен автор: | Gordon, Jan B., 1941- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1996.
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Publisher description Table of contents |
Съдържание:
- Preface and Acknowledgements: The Crisis of Credit
- 1. 'The Persistence of the "Vocalic"': Scott and the Early Strategies of Accommodation
- 2. A-filiative Families and Subversive Reproduction: Gossip in Jane Austen
- 3. Parlour's Parler: 'The Chatter of Tongues Within...' Wuthering Heights
- 4. 'In All Manner of Places, All at Wunst': Writing, Gossip and the State of Information in Bleak House
- 5. 'This Alarming Hearsay': Public Opinion and the Crisis of the Liberal Imagination in Middlemarch
- 6. 'Too Meeny': Jude, Dorian and the Life of the Secondary.