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Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture

Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture

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Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1409421279
ISBN13: 9781409421276
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 15 2011
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West, arguing that gems symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered prisms of culture. Her close readings of works by Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope show jewels turned into symbols of power, personal relationships, and valued ideas that serve to bind the materialist culture together.

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