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Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Skin, Silk, and Show

Sibylle Baumbach editor Ulla Ratheiser editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:22nd Nov '22

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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.

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ISBN: 9783030753993

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220 pages

1st ed. 2021