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Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel - Senses and Sensations

English · Paperback / Softback

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Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts.


List of contents










Introduction: Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel
1. Aisthetics: Theory and Toolkit
2. Realisms: George Eliot
3. Sensationalisms: Wilkie Collins
4. Aestheticisms: Vernon Lee


About the author










Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (Ph.D.) works as a stand-in professor for English Studies: Literature at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. She specializes in neo-Victorian and Victorian Studies and serves as associate editor of the online journal Neo-Victorian Studies. In her second book project, she explored the cultural history of perception in nineteenth-century texts as well as the re-evaluation of aesthetics in terms of aisthetics within Cultural Studies. Her current projects deal with the cultural legacy of the Opium Wars, practices of comparing and ecocriticsm.


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