Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians
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Alice Oke
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Caroline Helstone
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Coal Scuttle
commodity culture analysis
Currer Bell
daniel
deronda
Des Esseintes
domestic object studies
dorian
Drawn Back
Edward Casaubon
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Elaine Freedgood
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Family Psittacidae
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Graham Bretton
Hermetic Mystery
Hollow's Mill
Hollow’s Mill
lady
Lady Audley's Secret
Lady Audley’s Secret
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Lifted Veil
literary materiality
Lucy Snowe
Mr Casaubon
Mrs Charmond
museum studies
nineteenth-century collecting
OED's Definition
OED’s Definition
Palgrave's Golden Treasury
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
Paris Sketch Book
Penny Boumelha
Philosopher's Stone
Philosopher’s Stone
secret
Suggestive Inquiry
Thomas South
Victorian literature and material objects
Victorian material culture
Product details
- ISBN 9781138252950
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-Ã -brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-Ã -Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-Ã -brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.
Jonathon Shears is Lecturer in English at Keele University and Jen Harrison holds a PhD in Victorian and children's literature, and is currently a teacher of secondary school English.
