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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... tropes common earlier in the period , and his testing of those tropes to destruction . In Hardy , the past retains its presence , as with earlier Victorian fiction , but its presence is not reassuring : the past erupts into the present ...
... trope of the web ' in Eliot anticipates or , let us say , receives from the future the traversal of the internet . The web is thus ' intrinsic to [ the reading of ] history ' , and also a history of reading and representation , figuring ...
... trope of character as encrypted site of historical tension . In their interplay and as nodal markers of the cultural ... tropes of thread , weave , and web , not as organic mystifi- cations symptomatic of some perplexed liberal retreat ...
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The Posthumous | 13 |
Temporal and visual modalities | 19 |
Phantasms of experience or the mechanism of | 26 |
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