Technologies of power in the Victorian period : print culture, human labor, and new modes of critique in Charles Dickens's Hard times, Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, and George Eliot's Felix Holt / John C. Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, John Condon.

Contributor:

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Speech in literature.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times.

Dickens, Charles.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Shirley.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Felix Holt, the radical.

Eliot, George.

Communication and technology--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Communication and technology.

Literature and technology--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and technology.

English literature--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

English literature.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

English literature--Publishing.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 163 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction

Exploring carnivalesque in Dickens's Hard times

Crowds, mobs, and spatial separations in Brontë's Shirley

Tracing the absence of place-identity in Eliot's Felix Holt

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9781604976687

1604976683

OCLC:

476360570

Publisher Number:

99937205784