The Feeling of Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Feeling of Reading write by Rachel Ablow. This book was released on 2010. The Feeling of Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature
How to Read the Victorian Novel
How to Read the Victorian Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Read the Victorian Novel write by George Levine. This book was released on 2008. How to Read the Victorian Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain write by Leah Price. This book was released on 2012-04-09. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science
Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science write by David Sweeney Coombs. This book was released on 2019-11-19. Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney Coombs reveals, however, it was equally important to Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and critics, for whom the distinction between sensation and perception promised the key to understanding literature’s seemingly magical power to conjure up tastes, sights, touches, and sounds from the austere medium of print. In Victorian literature, science, and philosophy, the parallel between reading and perceiving gave rise to momentous debates about description as a mode of knowledge as well as how, and even whether, reading about the world differs from experiencing it firsthand. Examining novels and art criticism by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater alongside scientific works by Hermann von Helmholtz, William James, and others, this book shows how Victorian literature offers us ways not just to touch but to grapple with the material realities that Clifford Geertz called the "hard surfaces of life."
Reading Victorian Deafness
Reading Victorian Deafness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Victorian Deafness write by Jennifer Esmail. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Reading Victorian Deafness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet Martineau and John Kitto, to scientific treatises by Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Galton, Reading Victorian Deafness argues that deaf people’s language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain. The Victorians understood signed languages in multiple, and often contradictory, ways: they were objects of fascination and revulsion, were of scientific import and literary interest, and were considered both a unique mode of human communication and a vestige of a bestial heritage. Over the course of the nineteenth century, deaf people were increasingly stripped of their linguistic and cultural rights by a widespread pedagogical and cultural movement known as “oralism,” comprising mainly hearing educators, physicians, and parents. Engaging with a group of human beings who used signs instead of speech challenged the Victorian understanding of humans as “the speaking animal” and the widespread understanding of “language” as a product of the voice. It is here that Reading Victorian Deafness offers substantial contributions to the fields of Victorian studies and disability studies. This book expands current scholarly conversations around orality, textuality, and sound while demonstrating how understandings of disability contributed to Victorian constructions of normalcy. Reading Victorian Deafness argues that deaf people were used as material test subjects for the Victorian process of understanding human language and, by extension, the definition of the human.
