Reading Constellations : Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199333904
ISBN-13
9780199333905
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
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Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 3rd, 2014
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
408 grams
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24.00 x 16.50 x 1.90 cms
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Reading Constellations uses Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James.
Reading Constellations 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 interpenetrate and the ways these writers open out the representation of the city to new modes of articulation and-through narrative perception- the reader''s perception of the phenomena of the city, its place as the exemplar of modernity, and the ways in which it determines subjectivity.
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