Literary bric-à-brac and the Victorians

from commodities to oddities

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Jonathon Shears, Jen Harrison
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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
214

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Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents

Literary 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index.

Published in
Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT
Series
The nineteenth century series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/008
Library of Congress
PR734.A73 L58 2013, PR734.A73L58 2013, PR734.A73 L58 2013eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 214 pages
Number of pages
214

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30661625M
ISBN 13
9781409439905, 9781409439912, 9781472400390
LCCN
2012041823
OCLC/WorldCat
829958400, 819741505

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