Literary bric-à-brac and the Victorians : from commodities to oddities /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Shears, Jonathon, Harrison, Jen
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]
Series:	Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Art objects in literature. Consumption (Economics) in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Literary bric-à-brac: introducing things / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison
Bric-à-brac or architectonicè? fragment and form in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton
Bricabracomania! collecting, corporeality and the problem of things / Victoria Mills
"Beautiful things": nonsense and the museum / Anna Barton and Catherine Bates
Browning's curiosities: The ring and the book and the "democracy of things" / Jennifer McDonell
The bric-à-brac wars: Robert Browning and blessed John Henry Newman / Bernard Beatty
Inhospitable objects in M.R. James / Luke Thurston
On the nail: functional objects in Thomas Hardy's The woodlanders / David Trotter
Shopping to survive: consumerism and evolution in M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's secret / Sara Clayson
Charlotte Brontë's Frocks and Shirley's queer textiles / Deborah Wynne
The philosopher's stone and the key to all mythologies: Mary Anne South, George Eliot and the object of knowledge / Jayne Elisabeth Archer
The ideas in thing town: villette, art and moveable objects / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison.