The ideas in things : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel /
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...
| Основен автор: | Freedgood, Elaine. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=335557 |
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Print version::
Ideas in things. |
Съдържание:
- 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.