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1 online resource (215 pages). |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One:Moral Authority and the Sublime: Kantian Idealism, Burkean Empiricism, and the Absolutely Small; The Sublime, Moral Authority, and Monarchy; Empiricism, the Divisible Sublime and the Social Body; Sublime Womanhood; Chapter Two:""That Huge Fermenting Mass"": Wordsworth and the Divisible Self; Divisibility and Temporality; The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Liminal Space; The Liminal and Class Identity in ""Resolution and Independence"" |
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Chapter Three:Percy Bysshe Shelley's Sublime Woman and the Divisible SublimeShelleyand the Sublime Woman; Dante, Male Violence, and the Roots of the Sublime Woman in the Cenci; Chapter Four: The Sublime Woman and the Mature Middle-Class Man in Middlemarch; Ideally Illuminated Space; Romanticism and Eliot's Sublime; Mary Shelley and Sublime Womanhood; "A kind of Shelley, You Know""; Darwin, the Sublime, and Mature Romanticism; Chapter Five:Fearing Their Bodies: The King, the Queen and the Sublime in Thackeray; The Bedchamber Incident, Fear, and the Sublime; Thackeray and the Sovereign Sublime. |
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George III and George IVAmelia, Becky, and the Missing Sublime Woman in VanityFair; Queen Victoria and the Fear of the Feminine Sublime; Chapter Six:How Little is Dorrit?: Dickens and the Sublimity of Absolute Smallness; Vanishing Point; Amy Dorrit's Two Bodies; Tattycoram Learning to be Sublime; Chapter Seven:Jude the Obscure and the Tragedy of Aesthetic Ideology; Jude Fawley, Displaced Workers and Aesthetic Ideology; Bourgeois Sexuality and Vocation: The Tragedyof Sublime Womanhood; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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Sublime, The, in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Romanticism. |
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Middle class in literature.
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Middle class in literature. |
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hancock, Stephen. Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780415975452 |
| ISBN |
9781135492922 (electronic book) |
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1135492921 (electronic book) |
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