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  • Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

    by Adela Pinch ...
    Series Book 73 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them. She explains why ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Location of Experience

    Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living

    by Adela Pinch ...
    Series series Lit Z
    WINNER, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE, MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATIONWe tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside?The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up close, but by engineering environments in which we feel ... Read more

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    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Read more

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  • Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

    by Jill L. Matus ...
    Series Book 69 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Jill Matus explores shock in Victorian fiction and psychology with startling results that reconfigure the history of trauma theory. Central to Victorian thinking about consciousness and emotion, shock is a concept that challenged earlier ideas about the relationship between mind and body. Although the new materialist psychology of the mid-nineteenth century made possible the very concept of a ... Read more

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  • Beginning Realism

    Series series Beginnings
    Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as ‘too slippery’ to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary Theory alike, plainly setting out what realism is, the issues surrounding it, and its role in other ... Read more

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  • Victorian Metafiction

    Series series Victorian Literature and Culture Series
    Critics agree in the abstract that "metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners.From the mid-nineteenth ... Read more

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  • Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

    by Sue Zemka ...
    Series Book 77 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Sudden changes, opportunities, or revelations have always carried a special significance in Western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, events ... Read more

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  • Reductive Reading

    A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing

    by Sarah Allison ...
    "A masterful integration of digital humanistic approaches and more traditional close-reading methods . . . compelling, persuasive." — Victorian Studies for the 21st CenturyWhat is to be gained by reading George Eliot's Middlemarch from an Excel spreadsheet, or the novels of Charles Dickens through a few hundred dialogue tags—those he said/she saids that bring his characters to life? Sarah Danielle ... Read more

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  • How to Suppress Women's Writing

    by Joanna Russ ...
    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

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  • Critical Practice

    Series series New Accents
    What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions ... Read more

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

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