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Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk, and Show

Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk, and Show

Baumbach, Sibylle
Ratheiser, Ulla

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3030753999
ISBN13: 9783030753993
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 22 2022
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products 'as they are' and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural ramifications of the preoccupation with the exterior. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces. They look into the surfaces of literary narratives, paintings, and film but also into natural surfaces such as skin or bark. Each chapter foregrounds what is present rather than absent in a text, while also paying attention to the surfaces that become manifest on the diegetic level of the text, be they cloth, landscapes, or human bodies or faces.

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