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Victorian Vulgarity - Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture (Paperback)
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Victorian Vulgarity - Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture (Paperback)
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Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity
became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with
wider social implications. Variously associated with behavior, the
possession of wealth, different races, sexuality and gender, the
objects displayed in homes, and ways of thinking and feeling,
vulgarity suggested matters of style, taste, and comportment. This
collection examines the diverse ramifications of vulgarity in the
four areas where it was most discussed in the nineteenth century:
language use, changing social spaces, the emerging middle classes,
and visual art. Exploring the dynamics of the term as revealed in
dictionaries and grammars; Mayhew's London Labour and the London
Poor; fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope; essays,
journalism, art, and art reviews, the contributors bring their
formidable analytical skills to bear on this enticing and divisive
concept. Taken together, these essays urge readers to consider the
implications of vulgarity's troubled history for today's writers,
critics, and artists.
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