Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature

Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature
Title Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature PDF eBook
Author Patrick Fessenbecker
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 256
Release 2020-05-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1474460623

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Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Title How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain PDF eBook
Author Leah Price
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 360
Release 2013-10-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0691159548

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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Victorian People and Ideas

Victorian People and Ideas
Title Victorian People and Ideas PDF eBook
Author Richard Daniel Altick
Publisher
Pages 362
Release 1974
Genre History
ISBN

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Life in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age.

The Ideas in Things

The Ideas in Things
Title The Ideas in Things PDF eBook
Author Elaine Freedgood
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 208
Release 2010-10-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0226261638

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Presents an analysis of nineteenth-century English fiction, focusing on objects found in three Victorian novels, arguing that these items have meanings the modern reader does not understand, but were clear to the Victorian reader.

Key Concepts in Victorian Literature

Key Concepts in Victorian Literature
Title Key Concepts in Victorian Literature PDF eBook
Author Sean Purchase
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 304
Release 2006-03-27
Genre Study Aids
ISBN 0230204198

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Key Concepts in Victorian Literature is a lively, clear and accessible resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature. It contains major facts, ideas and contemporary literary theories, is packed with close and detailed readings and offers an overview of the historical and cultural context in which this literature was produced.

Reductive Reading

Reductive Reading
Title Reductive Reading PDF eBook
Author Sarah Allison
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 185
Release 2018-06
Genre Computers
ISBN 1421425629

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Introduction the syntax of Victorian moralizing: on choosing a proxy for style -- In defense of reading reductively -- The shockingly subtle criticism of the London Quarterly Review, 1855-1861 -- Relative clauses and the narrative present tense in George Eliot -- generalization and declamation : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's present-tense poetics -- A moral technology: speech tags in Charles Dickens's dialogue -- Conclusion : a grammar of perception

How to Read the Victorian Novel

How to Read the Victorian Novel
Title How to Read the Victorian Novel PDF eBook
Author George Levine
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages 192
Release 2008
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.