Literary bric-à-brac and the Victorians
Subtitle: from commodities to oddities
By: edited by Jonathon Shears, Keele University, UK, Jen Harrison
Series: The nineteenth century series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781409439905; 9781409439912; 9781472400390
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) in literature; History and criticism; Art objects in literature; English fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary bric-à-brac: introducing things / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison; title: Bric-à-brac or architectonicè? fragment and form in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton; title: Bricabracomania! collecting, corporeality and the problem of things in Victorian fiction / Victoria Mills; title: "Beautiful things": nonsense and the museum / Anna Barton and Catherine Bates; title: Browning's curiosities: The ring and the book and the "democracy of things" / Jennifer McDonell; title: The bric-à-brac wars: Robert Browning and blessed John Henry Newman / Bernard Beatty; title: Inhospitable objects in M.R. James / Luke Thurston; title: On the nail: functional objects in Thomas Hardy's The woodlanders / David Trotter; title: Shopping to survive: consumerism and evolution in M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's secret / Sara Clayson; title: Charlotte Brontë's Frocks and Shirley's queer textiles / Deborah Wynne; title: The philosopher's stone and the key to all mythologies: Mary Anne South, George Eliot and the object of knowledge / Jayne Elisabeth Archer; title: The ideas in thing town: villette, art and moveable objects / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison.