LEADER 03788nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910811392403321 005 20240417033748.0 010 $a0-7914-7728-2 010 $a1-4416-0364-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791477281 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722517 035 $a(OCoLC)316432611 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575926 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267318 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267318 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10333342 035 $a(PQKB)11502167 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407500 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10575926 035 $a(OCoLC)923405687 035 $a(DE-B1597)682040 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791477281 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722517 100 $a20080124d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictorian fetishism$b[electronic resource] $eintellectuals and primitives /$fPeter Melville Logan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century 300 $aThis book examines Victorian discourse on culture. 311 $a0-7914-7661-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tPrimitive Fetishism from Antiquity to 1860 -- $tMatthew Arnold?s Culture -- $tGeorge Eliot?s Realism -- $tEdward Tylor?s Science -- $tSexology?s Perversion -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aVictorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world?thunderstorms, trees, stones?is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory. 410 0$aSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCulture$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCriticism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCulture in literature 606 $aFetishism in literature 606 $aPrimitivism in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y19th century 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCulture$xPhilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 615 0$aCulture in literature. 615 0$aFetishism in literature. 615 0$aPrimitivism in literature. 676 $a820.9/3552 700 $aLogan$b Peter Melville$f1951-$01186959 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811392403321 996 $aVictorian fetishism$94103990 997 $aUNINA