Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

ISBN-13: 9781009296564 / Twarda / 2023 / 295 str.

Lauren (University of Ottawa) Gillingham

Opis

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Spis treści

Introduction: Fashion and Its Vicissitudes: Contingency, Temporality, Narrative; I. The Silver-Fork Novel and the Transient World: 1. 'All this phantasmagoria': Landon, Shelley, and the Texture of Contemporary Life; 2. Picaresque Movements: Pelham, Cecil, and the Rejection of Bildung; II: Demotic Celebrities: 3. Spectacular Objects: Criminal Celebrity and the Newgate School; 4. After Criminality: Dickens and the Celebrity of Everyday Life; III. Hypercurrency and the Sensation Novel: 5. Affective Distance and the Temporality of Sensation Fiction; Coda: Fiction and Fashion Now.