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Victorian Vulgarity: Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture

Victorian Vulgarity: Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0754664058
ISBN13: 9780754664055
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 19 2009
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Victorian England, vulgarity, first used to define language use and class position, became implicated in behavior, material possessions, sexuality, and race. Victorian Vulgarity explores vulgarity's troubled history through dictionaries and grammars; essays, journalism and visual art; and fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope. Neither dismissing nor reveling in vulgarity's myriad temptations, the contributors invite readers to consider the concept's implications for today's writers and artists.

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