LEADER 03886nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910815606003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-75401-7 010 $a9786612754012 010 $a0-226-26154-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226261546 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034612 035 $a(EBL)574742 035 $a(OCoLC)662453120 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000518412 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12164957 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518412 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10492231 035 $a(PQKB)10425728 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000420208 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11327377 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000420208 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10392484 035 $a(PQKB)11728227 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117445 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC574742 035 $a(DE-B1597)523113 035 $a(OCoLC)1135578064 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226261546 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL574742 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10412038 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275401 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034612 100 $a20051220d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ideas in things $efugitive meaning in the Victorian novel /$fElaine Freedgood 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-26155-7 311 $a0-226-26163-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-186) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Reading Things -- $t1. Souvenirs of Sadism: Mahogany Furniture, Deforestation, and Slavery in Jane Eyre -- $t2. Coziness and Its Vicissitudes: Checked Curtains and Global Cotton Markets in Mary Barton -- $t3. Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide: Negro Head Tobacco in and around Great Expectations -- $t4. Toward a History of Literary Underdetermination: Standardizing Meaning in Middlemarch -- $tCoda: Victorian Thing Culture and the Way We Read Now -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWhile the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. The 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 ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels-the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Brontė'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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMaterial culture in literature 606 $aMaterial culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMaterial culture in literature. 615 0$aMaterial culture$xHistory 676 $a823/.8093553 700 $aFreedgood$b Elaine$01668765 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815606003321 996 $aThe ideas in things$94029589 997 $aUNINA