Literary bric-�a-brac and the Victorians [electronic resource] : from commodities to oddities / edited by Jonathon Shears, Jen Harrison.
Series: Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)Publication details: Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2013.Description: xi, 214 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 820.9/008 23
- PR734.A73 L58 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Literary bric-�a-brac: introducing things / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison -- Bric-�a-brac or architectonic�e? fragment and form in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Bricabracomania! collecting, corporeality and the problem of things / Victoria Mills -- "Beautiful things": nonsense and the museum / Anna Barton and Catherine Bates -- Browning's curiosities: The ring and the book and the "democracy of things" / Jennifer McDonell -- The bric-�a-brac wars: Robert Browning and blessed John Henry Newman / Bernard Beatty -- Inhospitable objects in M.R. James / Luke Thurston -- On the nail: functional objects in Thomas Hardy's The woodlanders / David Trotter -- Shopping to survive: consumerism and evolution in M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's secret / Sara Clayson -- Charlotte Bront�e's Frocks and Shirley's queer textiles / Deborah Wynne -- The philosopher's stone and the key to all mythologies: Mary Anne South, George Eliot and the object of knowledge / Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- The ideas in thing town: villette, art and moveable objects / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison.
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