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BL
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951680
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b706050
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| Main Entry
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Freedgood, Elaine.
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| Title & Author
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The ideas in things : : fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel /\ Elaine Freedgood.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2006.
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x, 196 pages ;; 23 cm
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0226261557
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: 0226261638
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: 9780226261553
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: 9780226261638
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-186) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Reading things -- Souvenirs of sadism: mahogany furniture, deforestations, and slavery in Jane Eyre -- Coziness and its vicissitudes: checked curtains and global cotton markets in Mary Barton -- Realism, fetishism, and genocide: negro head tobacco in and around Great Expectations -- Toward a history of literary underdetermination: standardizing meaning in Middlemarch -- Coda: Victorian thing culture and the way we read now.
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"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."
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"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.
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Alltagsgegenstand
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Englisch
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English fiction.
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture.
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Roman
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Roman.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8093553
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| LC Classification
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PR788.M37F74 2006
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HL 1100rvk
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HL 1101rvk
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HL 1331rvk
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