Victorian Structures : Architecture, Society, and Narrative
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| Title: | Victorian Structures : Architecture, Society, and Narrative |
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| Description: | Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels'self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.Although Victorian novels often feature lengthy descriptions of the buildings where characters live, work, and pray, we may not always notice the stories these buildings tell. But when we do pay attention, we find these buildings offer more than evocative background settings. Victorian Structures uses the architectural writings of Victorian critic John Ruskin as a framework for examining the interaction of physical, social, and narrative structures in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Adam Bede by George Eliot, and The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. By closely reading their descriptions of architectural structure, this book reconsiders structure itself-both the social structures the novels reflect, and the narrative structures they employ. Weaving together analysis of these three kinds of structure offers an interpretation of Victorian realism that is far more socially and formally unstable than critics have tended to assume. It illustrates how these novels radically critique the limitations, dysfunctions, and deceptions of structure, while also imagining alternative possibilities.This unique interdisciplinary approach emphasizes structure-in-time: while current conversations about structure focus on its static and fixed properties, this book understands it as various forces in tension, producing meanings that are always in flux. Victorian Structures focuses not only on the way structures shape our perceptions and experiences, but also, more importantly, on the processes through which those structures come to be constructed in the first place, and how they change over time. |
| Authors: | Jody Griffith |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Architecture and literature, English fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Architecture in literature, Literature and society--England--History--19th century, Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism |
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