Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West, arguing that gems symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered "prisms of culture." Her close readings of works by Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope show jewels turned into symbols of power, personal relationships, and valued ideas that serve to bind the materialist culture together.
Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West, arguing that gems symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered "prisms of culture." Her close readings of works by Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope show jewels turned into symbols of power, personal relationships, and valued ideas that serve to bind the materialist culture together.
Jean Arnold is a Lecturer in the Department of English at California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA.
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Contents: Introduction: jewels and the formation of identity in Victorian literature and culture Perceiving objects The commodity fetish in Thackeray's The Great Hoggarty Diamond Gift, theft, and exchange in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Cameo appearances: aesthetics and gender in Middlemarch Tactics and 'strate-gems': jewelry, gender and the law in Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds Afterword Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction: jewels and the formation of identity in Victorian literature and culture Perceiving objects The commodity fetish in Thackeray's The Great Hoggarty Diamond Gift, theft, and exchange in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Cameo appearances: aesthetics and gender in Middlemarch Tactics and 'strate-gems': jewelry, gender and the law in Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds Afterword Bibliography Index.
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