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Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture - Writing Materiality (Paperback)
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Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture - Writing Materiality (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of
modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English
literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters
Victorian writing - industrial novels, literature about the city,
slum fiction, bluebooks, and the reports of sanitary reformers. It
seems to be "matter out of place," challenging traditional concepts
of art and disregarding the concern with hygiene, deodorization,
and purification at the center of the "civilizing process." Drawing
upon Material Cultural Studies for an analysis of the complex
relationships between dirt and textuality, the study adds a new
perspective to scholarship on both the Victorian sanitation
movement and Victorian fiction. The chapters focus on Victorian
commodity culture as a backdrop to narratives about refuse and
rubbish; on the impact of waste and ordure on life stories; on the
production and circulation of affective responses to filth in
realist novels and slum travelogues; and on the function of dirt
for both colonial discourse and its deconstruction in postcolonial
writing. They address questions as to how texts about dirt create
the effect of materiality, how dirt constructs or deconstructs
meaning, and how the project of writing dirt attempts to contain
its excessive materiality. Schulting discusses representations of
dirt in a variety of texts by Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster,
Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, James Greenwood, Henry James,
Charles Kingsley, Henry Mayhew, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, and
others. In addition, she offers a sustained analysis of the impact
of dirt on writing strategies and genre conventions, and pays
particular attention to those moments when dirt is recycled and
becomes the source of literary creation.
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