Description
| Product ID: | 9781611476644 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Victorian Literary Cultures |
| Subtitle: | Studies in Textual Subversion |
| Authors: | Author: James M. Decker, Kenneth Womack |
| Page Count: | 218 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , United Kingdom, Great Britain, English, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among others, as they address ideas of subversion in nineteenth-century literature. Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing clear cultural contexts for the works under review—including such canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes—the critics in this anthology offer groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif. For some late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central aspect of their writerly existence. Although—or perhaps because—most Victorian authors composed their works for a general and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to subvert genteel expectations. In addition to using coded and oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive material “in plain sight.” While some writers sought to critique, and even destabilize, their society, others juxtaposed subversive themes and aesthetics negatively with communal norms in hopes of quashing progressive agendas. |
| Imprint Name: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-11-01 |
