Talia Schaffer

Novel Craft

Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring over thirty illustrations, Novel Craft illustrates the cultural and economic importance of handicrafts in Victorian novels by Gaskell, Dickens, Yonge, and Oliphant.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780199338566
• ISBN-10: 0199338566
• Artikelnr.: 38396383

Autorenporträt

Talia Schaffer is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City of New York. She is the author of The Forgotten Female Aesthetes, co-editor with Kathy Psomiades of Women and British Aestheticism, and the editor of Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: "How to Read Wax Coral, and Why"
Chapter 1. "Women's Work: The History of the Victorian Domestic Handicraft"
Chapter 2. "Ephemerality: The Cranford Papers"
Chapter 3. "Preservation: The Daisy and the Chain"
Chapter 4. "Salvage: Betty as the Mutual Friend"
Chapter 5: "Connoisseurship: Giving Credit to Phoebe Junior"
Postscript
Bibliography