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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... modern flower in a medieval flowerpot ' : The Times and Visions of Thomas Hardy Our time is racked and torn , haunted by ghosts , and errant in search of lost realities , poor in genuine culture , incoherent among its own chief elements ...
... modern . It is . Instead , what I wish to stress is that in Hardy's worlds , the modern experience of the self reflexively addressed by Dickens , Eliot , Gaskell , and Collins is marked differently , and not focused on the rupture ...
... modern technology pairs him structurally with Paula's father , through the latter's professional involvement with railroads . Both men serve as figures for modern technology , while it is architecture itself and the genealogical ...
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The Posthumous | 13 |
Temporal and visual modalities | 19 |
Phantasms of experience or the mechanism of | 26 |
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