Novels Behind Glass - Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative

Klappentext This book examines the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England. Zusammenfassung Drawing on work in critical theory! feminism and social history! this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England. Analysing the work of Thackeray! Eliot! Dickens! Trollope! and Gaskell! Novels behind Glass will interest students of Victorian literature! history! and social and cultural theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Longing for sleeve buttons; 3. Spaces of exchange: interpreting the Great Exhibition of 1851; 4. The fragments and small opportunities of Cranford; 5. Rearranging the furniture of Our Mutual Friend; 6. Owning up: possessive individualism in Trollope's Autobiography and The Eustace Diamonds; 7. Middlemarch and the solicitude of material culture; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew H. Miller, Andrew H. (Indiana University) Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521068345
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06834-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies