The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

by Elaine Freedgood

Book Overview

While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226261557
• ISBN13: 9780226261553
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"