| Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk, and Show 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Baumbach, Sibylle (Editor), Ratheiser, Ulla (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030753964 ISBN-13: 9783030753962 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - History | Social History - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.02 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products 'as they are' and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural ramifications of the preoccupation with the exterior. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces. They look into the surfaces of literary narratives, paintings, and film but also into natural surfaces such as skin or bark. Each chapter foregrounds what is present rather than absent in a text, while also paying attention to the surfaces that become manifest on the diegetic level of the text, be they cloth, landscapes, or human bodies or faces. |