A01=Elaine Freedgood
Author_Elaine Freedgood
calico curtains
capitalism
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charles dickens
charlotte bronte
colonialism
control
cotton markets
cozy
deforestation
domesticity
elizabeth gaskell
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fetishism
furniture
genocide
george eliot
great expectations
hierarchy
jane eyre
literature
mahogany
mary barton
material culture
middlemarch
negro head
nonfiction
novel
objects
plantation
power
realism
sadism
slavery
thing theory
tobacco
victorian
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780226261553
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2006
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels - Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations - Freedgood argues that these things are connected to histories that the novels barely acknowledge, generating darker meanings outside the novels' symbolic systems. A valuable contribution to the field of object studies, "The Ideas in Things" pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish.
Elaine Freedgood is professor of English at New York University.
