Griffith Victorian Structures

Architecture, Society, and Narrative
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7833-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffith, Jody

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "All Men Are Builders": Victorian Structures

1. Within the Walls: Freedom and Obedience in Little Dorrit

2. Constructing Novel Time in Ordinary Time: The Architectural Structure of Eliot's Realism

3. "As We Lay Stone on Stone": Mediating the Past in The Mayor of Casterbridge

4. "Modern Thought. in Such Decrepit and Superseded Chambers": Disintegrating Structures in Jude the Obscure

Conclusion: "The Action of the Imagination": Building Perceptions of Truth

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jody Griffith is Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Penn State Scranton.