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Novel Craft - Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
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Novel Craft - Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
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Novel Craft explores an intriguing and under-studied aspect of
cultural life in Victorian England: domestic handicrafts, the
decorative pursuit that predated the Arts and Crafts movement.
Talia Schaffer argues that the handicraft movement served as a way
to critique the modern mass-produced commodity and the rapidly
emerging industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century. Her
argument is illustrated with the four pivotal novels that form her
study's core-Gaskell's Cranford, Yonge's The Daisy Chain, Dickens's
Our Mutual Friend, and Oliphant's Phoebe Junior. Each features
various handicrafts that subtly aim to subvert the socioeconomic
changes being wrought by industrialization. Schaffer goes beyond
straightforward textual analysis by shaping each chapter around the
individual craft at the center of each novel (paper for Cranford,
flowers and related arts in The Daisy Chain, rubbish and salvage in
Our Mutual Friend, and the contrasting ethos of arts and crafts
connoisseurship in Phoebe Junior). The domestic handicraft also
allows for self-referential analysis of the text itself; in scenes
of craft production (and destruction), the authors articulate the
work they hope their own fictions perform. The handicraft also
becomes a locus for critiquing contemporary aesthetic trends, with
the novels putting forward an alternative vision of making value
and understanding art. A work that combines cultural history and
literary studies, Novel Craft highlights how attention to the
handicraft movement's radically alternative views of materiality,
consumption, production, representation, and subjectivity provides
a fresh perspective on the major changes that shaped the Victorian
novel as a whole.
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