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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1. Verfasser: McKee, Patricia, 1945-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung: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 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 ofthe city, its place as the exemplar of modernity, and the ways in which it determines subjectivity.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 184 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199333912
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