This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, cookery books and albums, all showed domesticity as a process. Damkjær argues that texts' material form had a profound influence on their representation of domestic time.
This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, cookery books and albums, all showed domesticity as a process. Damkjær argues that texts' material form had a profound influence on their representation of domestic time.
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Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Maria Damkjær is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a PhD in English Literature from King's College London, UK.
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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Timetabling and its failures 1. Repetition: Making Domestic Time in Bleak House and the 'Bleak House Advertiser' 2. Interruption: The Periodical Press and the Drive for Realism 3. Division into Parts: Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and the Serial Instalment 4. Decomposition: Mrs Beeton and the Non-Linear Text Coda: Scrapbooking and the Reconfiguration of Domestic Time Notes Bibliography Index
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Timetabling and its failures 1. Repetition: Making Domestic Time in Bleak House and the 'Bleak House Advertiser' 2. Interruption: The Periodical Press and the Drive for Realism 3. Division into Parts: Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and the Serial Instalment 4. Decomposition: Mrs Beeton and the Non-Linear Text Coda: Scrapbooking and the Reconfiguration of Domestic Time Notes Bibliography Index
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