Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction - Echo's Economies (Hardcover)

Jan Gordon proposes that a reviled communicational 'interest' in gossip and its purveyors be given its proper due in the development of the novel in Britain. Commencing with Sir Walter Scott's historically persecuted (but economically and politically necessary) androgynous voices in caves and concluding with Oscar Wilde's premature celebration of gossip at the very moment it is transformed from public opinion to public judgment, the author finds gossip to be both deforming and shaping nineteenth century 'letters' in surprising ways. Like the ignominious orphan-figure of nineteenth-century fiction, gossip is the 'unacknowledged reproduction' searching for a political antecedence which might lend a legitimacy to its often discontinuous testimony, for a culture historically resistant to obtrusive voices.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	J. Gordon
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	444
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-60782-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-333-60782-1
Barcode:	9780333607824

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