Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture Skin Silk and Show 1st Edition by Sibylle Baumbach, Ulla Ratheiser 3030753979 9783030753979

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ISBN-10 :  3030753979 

ISBN-13 :  9783030753979

Author: Sibylle Baumbach, Ulla Ratheiser 

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. This is an open access book.

Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk, and Show 1st Table of contents:

1. How to Do Things with Surfaces: The Politics and Poetics of Victorian Surfaces
2. The Semantics of Surfaces: Victorian Panoramas, the Panoramic Gaze, and Thereness
3. Touching Skins, Spreading Stains: Contesting, Affirming, and Penetrating Surfaces in the Work of Thomas Hardy
4. Skin Deep: Reading Race in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
5. Twinship and Tactile Anxieties in Wilkie Collins’ Poor Miss Finch (1872)
6. Reading Victorian Skin: Perspectives in (English) Literary/Cultural Studies and Medical Humanities
7. Dickens’ Dirty Children
8. Gothic Cloth: Textures of the Unknown
9. Physiognomic Flânerie in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent
10. Revisiting Victorian Surfaces in Recent Biopics: Imperial Hauntings in the Durbar Room
11. Afterword: Bark

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