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From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained
glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the
scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge
to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a
range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and
discusses the most significant developments in material history
from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate
the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians
and addresses important questions about how we classify and
categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings
together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and
culture. This volume, 'Manufactured Things', will consider mass
produced industrial and domestic objects.
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Our Mutual Friend (Paperback, New edition)
Charles Dickens; Illustrated by Marcus Stone; Introduction by Deborah Wynne; Notes by Deborah Wynne; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College.
Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last
complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating
accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by
materialistic values emerges not just through its central
narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and
scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who
returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned
under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish
for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry
to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful
characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus
gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her
terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg.
Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on
the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte
Bronte's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover
the period from Bronte's first publication to the twenty-first
century, explain why her work has endured in so many different
forms and contexts. This book brings the story of Charlotte
Bronte's legacy up to date, analysing the intriguing afterlives of
characters such as Jane Eyre and Rochester in neo-Victorian
fiction, cinema, television, the stage and, more recently, on the
web. Taking a fresh look at 150 years of engagement with one of the
best-loved novelists of the Victorian period, from obituaries to
vlogs, from stage to screen, from novels to erotic makeovers, this
book reveals the author's diverse and intriguing legacy. Engagingly
written and illustrated, the book will appeal to both scholars and
general readers. -- .
How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to
new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah
Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable
property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical
explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world
have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture,
Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied
across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the
1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property
rights; evidence suggests that, for women, objects often functioned
not as disposable consumer products but as cherished personal
property. Focusing particularly on representations of women and
material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James,
Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of
women's relationships to property. Suggesting that many of the
apparently insignificant items that 'clutter' the Victorian realist
novel take on new meaning when viewed through the lens of women's
access to material culture and the vagaries of property law, her
study opens up new possibilities for interpreting female characters
in Victorian fiction and reveals the complex work of 'thing
culture' in literary texts.
How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to
new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah
Wynne's study of literary representations of women and portable
property during the period 1850 to 1900. While critical
explorations of Victorian women's connections to the material world
have tended to focus on their relationships to commodity culture,
Wynne argues that modern paradigms of consumerism cannot be applied
across the board to the Victorian period. Until the passing of the
1882 Married Women's Property Act, many women lacked full property
rights; evidence suggests that, for women, objects often functioned
not as disposable consumer products but as cherished personal
property. Focusing particularly on representations of women and
material culture in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James,
Wynne shows how novelists engaged with the vexed question of
women's relationships to property. Suggesting that many of the
apparently insignificant items that 'clutter' the Victorian realist
novel take on new meaning when viewed through the lens of women's
access to material culture and the vagaries of property law, her
study opens up new possibilities for interpreting female characters
in Victorian fiction and reveals the complex work of 'thing
culture' in literary texts.
Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on
the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte
Bronte's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover
the period from Bronte's first publication to the twenty-first
century, explain why her work has endured in so many different
forms and contexts. This book brings the story of Charlotte
Bronte's legacy up to date, analysing the intriguing afterlives of
characters such as Jane Eyre and Rochester in neo-Victorian
fiction, cinema, television, the stage and, more recently, on the
web. Taking a fresh look at 150 years of engagement with one of the
best-loved novelists of the Victorian period, from obituaries to
vlogs, from stage to screen, from novels to erotic makeovers, this
book reveals the author's diverse and intriguing legacy. Engagingly
written and illustrated, the book will appeal to both scholars and
general readers. -- .
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