The Ideas in Things
Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel
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Word Count
46,000 words, Guess
Page Count
184 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10191864M
- ISBN-139780226261553
- ISBN-100226261557
- OCLC Control Number62782113
- Library of Congress Control Number2005037314
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2302933
- Goodreads1346604
Classifications
- LCCPR788.M37F74 2006
Description
"Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ingore to the stories they tell." "Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels - the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the calico curtains in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and "Negro head" tobacco in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - Freedgood argues that these things are connected to histories that the novels barely acknowledge, generating darker meanings outside the novels' symbolic systems. A valuable contribution to the new field of object studies in the humanities, The Ideas in Things pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish."--Jacket.
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