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Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury - Novel Grounds (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
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Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury - Novel Grounds (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of
the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It
tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical
perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with
Bloomsbury in the period it emerged as the city's dominant literary
zone. A neighbourhood that was subject simultaneously to
socio-economic decline and cultural ascent, fiction set in
Bloomsbury is shown to have reconceived the area's marginality as
potential autonomy. Drawing on sociological theory, this book
critically historicizes Bloomsbury's trajectory to show that its
association with the intellectual "fraction" known as the
'Bloomsbury Group' at the beginning of the twentieth century was
symptomatic rather than exceptional. From the 1820s onwards,
writers positioned themselves socially within the metropolitan
geography they projected through their fiction. As Bloomsbury
became increasingly identified with the cultural capital of writers
rather than the economic capital of established wealth, writers
subtly affiliated themselves with the area, and the figure of the
writer and Bloomsbury became symbolically conflated.
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