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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... scene , its order and its content . The observers , observing nothing and yet intent on ' staring ' , are themselves transformed into the ' something ' at which to be looked . They become the vision and the source of a commentary on the ...
... scene : the imagined scene of the girl herself [ who , the reader finds out is Paula Power ] as she sat alone in the vestry ' ( L 15 ) . As the earlier sentence introducing George Somerset as the contem- plative summer traveller ...
... scene or across time . Yet of course what is also revealed in this moment of suspension and oblique reflection - which is intended undeniably to give pause to the act of reading - as- witness in order that reading might become a moment ...
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The Posthumous | 13 |
Temporal and visual modalities | 19 |
Phantasms of experience or the mechanism of | 26 |
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