The ideas in things [[electronic resource] ] : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel / / Elaine Freedgood |
Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.8093553 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Material culture in literature Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-75401-7
9786612754012 0-226-26154-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Things -- 1. Souvenirs of Sadism: Mahogany Furniture, Deforestation, and Slavery in Jane Eyre -- 2. Coziness and Its Vicissitudes: Checked Curtains and Global Cotton Markets in Mary Barton -- 3. Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide: Negro Head Tobacco in and around Great Expectations -- 4. Toward a History of Literary Underdetermination: Standardizing Meaning in Middlemarch -- Coda: Victorian Thing Culture and the Way We Read Now -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459354203321 |
Freedgood Elaine | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ideas in things [[electronic resource] ] : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel / / Elaine Freedgood |
Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.8093553 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Material culture in literature Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato | thing theory, victorian, literature, great expectations, charles dickens, tobacco, negro head, mary barton, elizabeth gaskell, calico curtains, jane eyre, charlotte bronte, furniture, mahogany, sadism, power, violence, control, hierarchy, colonialism, slavery, plantation, deforestation, cozy, domesticity, cotton markets, capitalism, middlemarch, george eliot, genocide, fetishism, realism, novel, nonfiction, material culture, objects |
ISBN |
1-282-75401-7
9786612754012 0-226-26154-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Things -- 1. Souvenirs of Sadism: Mahogany Furniture, Deforestation, and Slavery in Jane Eyre -- 2. Coziness and Its Vicissitudes: Checked Curtains and Global Cotton Markets in Mary Barton -- 3. Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide: Negro Head Tobacco in and around Great Expectations -- 4. Toward a History of Literary Underdetermination: Standardizing Meaning in Middlemarch -- Coda: Victorian Thing Culture and the Way We Read Now -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784931803321 |
Freedgood Elaine | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ideas in things : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel / / Elaine Freedgood |
Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.8093553 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Material culture in literature Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-282-75401-7
9786612754012 0-226-26154-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Things -- 1. Souvenirs of Sadism: Mahogany Furniture, Deforestation, and Slavery in Jane Eyre -- 2. Coziness and Its Vicissitudes: Checked Curtains and Global Cotton Markets in Mary Barton -- 3. Realism, Fetishism, and Genocide: Negro Head Tobacco in and around Great Expectations -- 4. Toward a History of Literary Underdetermination: Standardizing Meaning in Middlemarch -- Coda: Victorian Thing Culture and the Way We Read Now -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815606003321 |
Freedgood Elaine | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the practice of paradise -- ; 1. Banishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- ; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- ; 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- ; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- ; 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455236403321 |
Freedgood Elaine | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the practice of paradise -- ; 1. Banishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- ; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- ; 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- ; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- ; 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780091303321 |
Freedgood Elaine | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood |
Autore | Freedgood Elaine |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 820.9/355 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism Risk perception - Great Britain - History - 19th century British - Foreign countries - History - 19th century Travel writing - History - 19th century Travel in literature Risk in literature Autobiography |
ISBN |
1-107-12024-1
0-511-15116-0 0-511-31051-X 0-511-04595-6 0-521-78108-6 1-280-15475-6 0-511-11863-5 0-511-48479-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the practice of paradise -- ; 1. Banishing panic: J.R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy -- ; 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform -- ; 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs -- ; 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs -- ; 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819694703321 |
Freedgood Elaine | ||
Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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