Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth CenturyBloomsbury Academic, 1 de set. de 2007 - 304 páginas This authoritative survey examines how the Victorian middle-classes perceived themselves, through analyses of the literature of the period. Asking how the middle classes distinguished themselves from their forbears, Julian Wolfreys reads in detail major novels by: |
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... meaning is firmly in place , permanent and unassailable . If Dickens to Hardy , 1837–1884 is to be a book therefore about the iden- tities we name ' Victorians ' , ' Victorian literature ' , or ' Victorian culture ' in any faithful way ...
... meaning or identity , as well as the assumption occa- sionally of the impossibility of communicating meaning unequivo- cally : ' It is one of the rules of my life , never to notice what I don't understand . I steered the middle course ...
... meaning . The groundlessness of the novel is opened to our view through moments just such as those described immediately above , and repeatedly throughout in its concern with transmission , motion , flow and flight , with intersection ...
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The Posthumous | 13 |
Temporal and visual modalities | 19 |
Phantasms of experience or the mechanism of | 26 |
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