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The ideas in things [[electronic resource] ] : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel / / Elaine Freedgood
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
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The ideas in things [[electronic resource] ] : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel / / Elaine Freedgood
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
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]]
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]]
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
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a dangerous world / / Elaine Freedgood
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
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui