Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel |
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Author:
| Gillingham, Lauren |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-009-29655-7 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2023 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Digital download and online |
List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.
Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.