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Victorian surfaces in nineteenth-century literature and culture : skin, silk and show / Sibylle Baumbach, Ulla Ratheiser, editors.

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Book
Contributor:
Baumbach, Sibylle, editor.
Ratheiser, Ulla, editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.
Series:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature.
Surfaces (Technology).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Preface (Pamela K. Gilbert)
1 How to Do Things with Surfaces: The Politics and Poetics of Victorian surfaces (Sibylle Baumbach and Ulla Ratheiser)
2 The Semantics of Surfaces: Victorian Panoramas and the Panoramic Gaze (Heidi Liedke)
3 Twinship and Tactile Anxieties in Wilkie Collinss Poor Miss Finch (1872) (Wieland Schwanebeck)
4 Touching Skins, Spreading Stains: Contesting, Affirming and Penetrating Surfaces in the Work of Thomas Hardy (Felicitas Meifert-Meinhard)
5 Dickens Dirty Children (Franziska Quabeck)
6 Gothic Cloth: Textures of the Unknown (Sophia Jochem and Cordula Lemke)
7 Imperial Hauntings in the Durbar Room: Spurious Materiality in Neo-Victorian Biopics (Jan Rupp)
8.Red-hot applications on their vile skins. Ironic Transparency in Joseph Conrads The Secret Agent (Eike Kronshage)
9 Making Skin Legible: Surface and Symptomatic Readings of Victorian Culture (Monika Pietzrak-Franger)
10 Afterword (Kate Flint).
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Victorian surfaces in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
ISBN:
9783030753979
3030753972
Publisher Number:
99989449686
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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