Patricia Mckee

Reading Constellations

Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Constellations uses Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199333905
• ISBN-10: 0199333904
• Artikelnr.: 40306033

Autorenporträt

Patricia McKee is Professor of English and Edward Hyde Cox Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. She is the author of several books, including Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel , 1764-1878 (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison (Duke UP, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter One: Reading the Victorian City
Chapter Two: Great Expectations: The Narrative Winks
Chapter Three: London Looking Backward: Our Mutual Friend
Chapter Four: Scenes of Reading in Jude the Obscure
Chapter Five: Urban Spaces "In the Cage"
Bibliography