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Novels behind Glass - Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Paperback)
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Novels behind Glass - Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Paperback)
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Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social history,
this book traces the lines of tension shot through Victorian
culture by the fear that the social world was being reduced to a
display window behind which people, their actions and their
convictions were exhibited for the economic appetites of others.
Affecting the most basic elements of Victorian life - the vagaries
of desire, the rationalisation of social life, the gendering of
subjectivity, the power of nostalgia, the fear of mortality, the
cyclical routines of the household - the ambivalence generated by
commodity culture organizes the thematic concerns of these novels
and the society they represent. Taking the commodity as their point
of departure, chapters on Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot,
Trollope, and the Great Exhibition of 1851 suggest that Victorian
novels provide us with graphic and enduring images of the power of
commodities to affect the varied activities and beliefs of
individual and social experience.
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