Reading Constellations : Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction.

Reading Constellations : Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction.

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 interpenetr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKee, Patricia, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online, 2014.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
City and town life in literature
English fiction
Literature and society
Space and time in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of 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

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