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Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Lauren Gillingham (2023, Hardcover)
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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009296566
ISBN-139781009296564
eBay Product ID (ePID)14058362912
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Book TitleFashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Number of Pages295 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorLauren Gillingham
Book SeriesCambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
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LCCN2022-048198
Reviews'To thrilling effect, Fashionable Fictions invites scholars of the novel to take a second look at the unrespectable sub-genres-silver fork novels, Newgate novels, sensation novels-that they generally sideline. Gillingham does more than teach us new things about history, temporality, and fictional character in the nineteenth century. She also helps us appreciate the aspirations to hyper-currency that distinguish the fiction of our own moment.' Deidre Lynch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature, Harvard University
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 143
Dewey Decimal823.809355
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Fashion and Its Vicissitudes: Contingency, Temporality, Narrative; I. The Silver-Fork Novel and the Transient World: 1. 'All this phantasmagoria': Landon, Shelley, and the Texture of Contemporary Life; 2. Picaresque Movements: Pelham, Cecil, and the Rejection of Bildung; II: Demotic Celebrities: 3. Spectacular Objects: Criminal Celebrity and the Newgate School; 4. After Criminality: Dickens and the Celebrity of Everyday Life; III. Hypercurrency and the Sensation Novel: 5. Affective Distance and the Temporality of Sensation Fiction; Coda: Fiction and Fashion Now.
SynopsisRevealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion's idiom of currency and obsolescence to link narrative form to a heightened sense of the present and the visibility of public life. It contends that novelists steeped their fiction in date-stamped matters of dress, manners, and media sensations to articulate a sense of history as unfolding not in epochal change, but in transient issues and interests capturing the public's imagination. Reading fiction by Mary Shelley, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others, Fashionable Fictions tells the story of a nineteenth-century genre commitment to contemporaneity that restyles the novel itself., Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.
LC Classification NumberPR868.F34G55 2023
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