| Description |
x, 196 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-186) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reading things -- Souvenirs of sadism: mahogany furniture, deforestations, and slavery in Jane Eyre -- Coziness and its vicissitudes: checked curtains and global cotton markets in Mary Barton -- Realism, fetishism, and genocide: negro head tobacco in and around Great Expectations -- Toward a history of literary underdetermination: standardizing meaning in Middlemarch -- Coda: Victorian thing culture and the way we read now. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
0226261638 pbk. |
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9780226261638 pbk. |
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0226261557 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780226261553 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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