The Ideas in Things
Elaine Freedgood · 2006
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About the book
"Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ingore to the stories they tell." "Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels - the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the calico curtains in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and "Negro head" tobacco in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - Freedgood argues that these things are connected to histories that the novels barely acknowledge, generating darker meanings outside the novels' symbolic systems. A valuable contribution to the new field of object studies in the humanities, The Ideas in Things pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 184
- ISBN
- 9780226261553
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