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Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects - Victorian Objects (Hardcover)
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Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects - Victorian Objects (Hardcover)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and
displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of
things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for
those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the
Victorian period is intrinsically associated with paraphernalia.
This collection of essays explores the Victorians through their
materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian;
which objects defined them, represented them, were uniquely theirs;
and how reading the Victorians, through their possessions, can
deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. Miscellaneous and
often auxiliary, paraphernalia becomes the 'disjecta' of everyday
life, deemed neither valuable enough for museums nor symbolic
enough for purely literary study. This interdisciplinary collection
looks at the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up
the background of Victorian life: Valentine's cards, fish tanks,
sugar plums, china ornaments, hair ribbons, dresses and more.
Contributors also, however, consider how we use Victorian objects
to construct the Victorian today; museum spaces, the relation of
Victorian text to object, and our reading - or gazing at -
Victorian advertisements out of context on searchable online
databases. Responding to thing theory and modern scholarship on
Victorian material culture, this book addresses five key concerns
of Victorian materiality: collecting; defining class in the home;
objects becoming things; objects to texts; objects in circulation
through print culture.
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