Time, Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-54287-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, cookery books and albums, all showed domesticity as a process. Damkjær argues that texts' material form had a profound influence on their representation of domestic time.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Damkjær, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Timetabling and its failures
1. Repetition: Making Domestic Time in Bleak House and the 'Bleak House Advertiser'
2. Interruption: The Periodical Press and the Drive for Realism
3. Division into Parts: Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and the Serial Instalment
4. Decomposition: Mrs Beeton and the Non-Linear Text
Coda: Scrapbooking and the Reconfiguration of Domestic Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Damkjær is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a PhD in English Literature from King's College London, UK.