Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian NarrativeCambridge University Press, 19.10.1995 - 242 Seiten Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social history, this book traces the lines of tension shot through Victorian culture by the fear that the social world was being reduced to a display window behind which people, their actions and their convictions were exhibited for the economic appetites of others. Affecting the most basic elements of Victorian life - the vagaries of desire, the rationalisation of social life, the gendering of subjectivity, the power of nostalgia, the fear of mortality, the cyclical routines of the household - the ambivalence generated by commodity culture organizes the thematic concerns of these novels and the society they represent. Taking the commodity as their point of departure, chapters on Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and the Great Exhibition of 1851 suggest that Victorian novels provide us with graphic and enduring images of the power of commodities to affect the varied activities and beliefs of individual and social experience. |
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Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative Andrew H. Miller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1995 |
Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative Andrew H. Miller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1995 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aesthetic alienation Anthony Trollope appears argued attempts auction Autobiography Becky Becky Sharp become Boffin characters Charles Babbage Charles Dickens circulation clothes commodified commodities Cranford Crystal Palace defined describes desire discourse domestic Dorothea dress economy Elizabeth Gaskell encouraged essay Eugene Eugene's Eustace Diamonds everyday exchange Exhibition fashion Fiction fragmentation Gaskell Gaskell's George Eliot glass heirlooms household Illustrated London imaginary imagined individual instance Jenkyns jewels labor Lady language Letters literary Lizzie Lizzie's Lydgate Mary material culture Matty Matty's ment Middlemarch Miss moral Mutual Friend narrative novel novelist objects ownership pawnshop Peter plot possession production Punch railway reader relations relationship represent representation Rokesmith Rosamond routines says seen servants significance similarly Slavoj Žižek social space structure suggests Thackeray Thackeray's things tion trans Trollope Trollope's Uncommercial Traveller understanding University Press Vanity Fair Victorian Walter Benjamin William Thackeray women writing wrote York
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