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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... witness and betrayal in order to maintain the mediation of a binocular dissimilarity and distortion by which iterable communica- tion has its chance . In this , The Posthumous Papers affirms literature's responsibility to bear witness ...
... witness , to the past ( Miller 1997 , 194 ) . More than this , responsi- bility resides not simply in the teller but in the reader , who assumes responsibility for reading aright what is being narrated , thereby bear- ing witness to ...
... witness and bear testimony – such as Ezra Jennings – are no longer here . All that remains of the past is writing which , in its interleaved form , invites us to consider not only that we are caught up , implicated in the relay as we ...
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The Posthumous | 13 |
Temporal and visual modalities | 19 |
Phantasms of experience or the mechanism of | 26 |
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