{"product_id":"ideas-in-things","title":"Ideas in Things","description":"\"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.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219983651160,"sku":"9780226261553","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226261553.jpg?v=1769756434","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ideas-in-things","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}