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Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion
Contributor(s): Womack, Kenneth (Editor), Decker, James M. (Editor), Bassett, Troy (Contribution by)

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ISBN: 161147664X     ISBN-13: 9781611476644
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
OUR PRICE: $97.65  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Collections | European - General
Dewey: 820.900
LCCN: 2016039976
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" L (1.00 lbs) 218 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Choice 05/01/2017
 
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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.
 
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