Victorian Vulgarity Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture |
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| Editor:
| Bernstein, Susan David
Michie, Elsie B. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-6405-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $259.00 |
Book Description:
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In Victorian England, vulgarity, first used to define language use and class position, became implicated in behavior, material possessions, sexuality, and race. Victorian Vulgarity explores vulgarity's troubled history through dictionaries and grammars; essays, journalism and visual art; and fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope. Neither dismissing or reveling in vulgarity's myriad temptations, the contributors invite readers to consider the concept's implications for...
More DescriptionIn Victorian England, vulgarity, first used to define language use and class position, became implicated in behavior, material possessions, sexuality, and race. Victorian Vulgarity explores vulgarity's troubled history through dictionaries and grammars; essays, journalism and visual art; and fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope. Neither dismissing or reveling in vulgarity's myriad temptations, the contributors invite readers to consider the concept's implications for today's writers and artists.