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Reading constellations : urban modernity in Victorian fiction / Patricia McKee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKee, Patricia, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- City and town life in literature.
- Space and time in literature.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title uses Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James. Throughout its chapters, the monograph deploys the dialectical notion of the 'constellation' to read moments in novels in which past and present interpenetrate and the ways these writers open out the representation of the city to new modes of articulation and-through narrative perception- the reader's perception of the phenomena of the city, its place as the exemplar of modernity, and the ways in which it determines subjectivity.
- Contents:
- Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Reading the Victorian City; 2. Great Expectations: The Narrative Winks; 3. London Looking Backward: Our Mutual Friend; 4. Scenes of Reading in Jude the Obscure; 5. Urban Spaces "In the Cage"; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-933391-2
- 1-306-29125-9
- OCLC:
- 922972888
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