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Ideas in Things : Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel by Elaine Freedgood (2010, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226261638

ISBN-139780226261638

eBay Product ID (ePID)84492331

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIdeas in Things : Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

SubjectCustoms & Traditions, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2010

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

AuthorElaine Freedgood

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal823/.8093553

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: Reading Things 1. Souvenirs of Sadism: Mahogany Furniture, Deforestation, and Slavery in Jane Eyre 2. The Vicissitudes of Coziness: Checked Curtains and Global Cotton Markets in Mary Barton 3. Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide: Negro Head Tobacco in and around Great Expectations 4. Toward a History of Literary Underdetermination: Standardizing Meaning in Middlemarch Coda: Victorian Thing Culture and the Way We Read Now Notes Index

SynopsisWhile the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. 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 here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels--the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre , the calico curtains in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton , and "Negro head" tobacco in Charles Dickens's 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 new field of object studies in the humanities, The Ideas in Things pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish., While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. 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 here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels--the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre , the calico curtains in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton , and "Negro head" tobacco in Charles Dickens's 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 new field of object studies in the humanities, The Ideas in Things pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish.

LC Classification NumberPR788.M37F74 2010