Victorian Vulgarity (eBook, PDF)

Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture
Redaktion: Bernstein, Susan David; Michie, Elsie B.

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with wider social implications. Variously associated with behavior, the possession of wealth, different races, sexuality and gender, the objects displayed in homes, and ways of thinking and feeling, vulgarity suggested matters of style, taste, and comportment. This collection examines the diverse ramifications of vulgarity in the four areas where it was most discussed in the nineteenth century: language use, changing social spaces, the emerging middle classes, and visual art. Exploring the dynamics of the term as revealed in dictionaries and grammars; Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor; fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope; essays, journalism, art, and art reviews, the contributors bring their formidable analytical skills to bear on this enticing and divisive concept. Taken together, these essays urge readers to consider the implications of vulgarity's troubled history for today's writers, critics, and artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351875844
• Artikelnr.: 49354806

Autorenporträt

Susan David Bernstein is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Elsie B. Mitchie is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: varieties of vulgarity
Elsie B. Mitchie and Susan David Bernstein; Part I Vulgar Words: The vulgarity of elegance: social mobility
middle-class diction
and the Victorian novel
Beth Newman; Wulgarity and witality: on making a spectacle of oneself in Pickwick
James Buzard; Rudeness
slang
and obscenity: working-class politics in London Labour and The London Poor
Ellen Bayuk Rosenman. Part II Common Places: Vulgar Christianity
Elsie B. Michie; Breeding
education
and vulgarity: George Gissing and the lower-middle classes
Rosemary Jann; Too common readers at the British Museum
Susan David Bernstein; 'A religion of pots and pans': Jewish materialism and spiritual materiality in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto
Meri-Jane Rochelson. Part III Vulgar Middles: Gross vulgarity and the domestic ideal: Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington
Carolyn Dever; 'It went through and through me like an electric shock': celebrating vulgar female desire and the realist novel in Trollope's Ayala's Angel
Deborah Denenholz Morse; Vulgarity
stupidity
and worldliness in Middlemarch
Joseph Litvak. Part IV Visual Vulgarity: Poison books and moving pictures: vulgarity in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ronald R. Thomas; James Tissot's 'coloured photographs of vulgar society'
Nancy Rose Marshall; Vulgar India from nabobs to nationalism: imperial reversals and the mediation of art
Julie F. Codell; Afterword: how Victorian was vulgarity?
John Kucich; Index.