03788nam 2200733Ia 450 991081139240332120240417033748.00-7914-7728-21-4416-0364-610.1515/9780791477281(CKB)1000000000722517(OCoLC)316432611(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575926(SSID)ssj0000267318(PQKBManifestationID)11218402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267318(PQKBWorkID)10333342(PQKB)11502167(MiAaPQ)EBC3407500(Au-PeEL)EBL3407500(CaPaEBR)ebr10575926(OCoLC)923405687(DE-B1597)682040(DE-B1597)9780791477281(EXLCZ)99100000000072251720080124d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrVictorian fetishism[electronic resource] intellectuals and primitives /Peter Melville Logan1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20091 online resource (221 p.) SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth centuryThis book examines Victorian discourse on culture.0-7914-7661-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Primitive Fetishism from Antiquity to 1860 -- Matthew Arnold’s Culture -- George Eliot’s Realism -- Edward Tylor’s Science -- Sexology’s Perversion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexVictorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world—thunderstorms, trees, stones—is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory.SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.English prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismCulturePhilosophyHistory19th centuryCriticismGreat BritainHistory19th centuryCulture in literatureFetishism in literaturePrimitivism in literatureGreat BritainIntellectual life19th centuryEnglish prose literatureHistory and criticism.CulturePhilosophyHistoryCriticismHistoryCulture in literature.Fetishism in literature.Primitivism in literature.820.9/3552Logan Peter Melville1951-1186959MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811392403321Victorian fetishism4103990UNINA