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LEADER: 02349cam a2200349 i 4500
001 2012041823
003 DLC
005 20140306075911.0
008 121128s2013 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012041823
020 $a9781409439905 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9781409439912 (ebook )
020 $z9781472400390 (epub)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR734.A73$bL58 2013
082 00 $a820.9/008$223
245 00 $aLiterary bric-à-brac and the Victorians :$bfrom commodities to oddities /$cedited by Jonathon Shears, Keele University, UK, Jen Harrison.
264 1 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$c[2013]
300 $axi, 214 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe nineteenth century series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index.
505 0 $aLiterary bric-à-brac: introducing things / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison -- Bric-à-brac or architectonicè? fragment and form in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Bricabracomania! collecting, corporeality and the problem of things in Victorian fiction / 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-à-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 Brontë'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.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aArt objects in literature.
650 0 $aConsumption (Economics) in literature.
700 1 $aShears, Jonathon.
700 1 $aHarrison, Jen.