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Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent Dickens and the Material Culture of the View Online Victorian Novel 127 items Required Primary Reading (7 items) Lady Audley's secret - Braddon, M. E., Skilton, David, 1987 Book Great expectations - Dickens, Charles, 1963 Book | Other editions avaliable in the library. Hard times: an authoritative text, contexts, criticism - Dickens, Charles, Kaplan, Fred, Monod, Sylve ̀ re, 2001 Book | Other editions avaliable in the library. Our mutual friend - Dickens, Charles, Stone, Marcus, 1952 Book | Other editions avaliable in the library. Cranford - Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, Watson, Elizabeth Porges, 1980 Book | Other editions avaliable in the library. Household Words Book | For copies please speak to the course convenor. Copes should be supplied on Moodle or in hard copy. Vanity fair: a novel without a hero ; with 193 illustrations by the author - Thackeray, William Makepeace, Sutherland, J. A., 1983 Book | Other editions avaliable in the library. Material culture in the Victorian novel (9 items) Chapter 1 Chapter Thing Theory - Bill Brown Article Commodity Criticism and Victorian Thing Culture: The Case of Dickens - Elaine Freedgood Chapter Chapter 1 1/10 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent Chapter 'The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof' - Karl Marx Chapter Introduction: Victorian Fiction and the Material Imagination | Mills | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century - Victoria Mills Article On Stuff | Pettitt | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century - Clare Pettitt Article THINKING OBJECTIVELY: AN OVERVIEW OF “THING THEORY” IN VICTORIAN STUDIES - Jennifer Sattaur, 2012-3-7 Article 'The Dickens World: The View from Todgers' - Dorothy Van Ghent Chapter Material culture of the Victorian novel (5 items) Among the Unknown Public: Household Words, All the Year Round and the Mass-Market Weekly Periodical in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Lorna Huett, 2005 Article Chapter 1 Chapter 'The disease of reading and Victorian periodicals', Chapter - Kelly J. Mays Chapter Chapter 1 Chapter 'Telling of my weekly doings': The Material culture of the Victorian novel - Mark Turner Chapter Vanity Fair and the world of goods: desire and disenchantment (8 items) 'Commodities', chapter of Thackeray: Prodigal Genius Chapter The "Vanity Fair" of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, and the East in the Ladies' Bazaar - Gary R. Dyer, 1991-09 Article 'Image versus Text in the Illustrated Novels of William Makepeace Thackeray' - Judith L. Fisher Chapter 2/10 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent LYING EPITAPHS: VANITY FAIR, WATERLOO, AND THE CULT OF THE DEAD - Julian Jimenez Heffernan, 2012-3-7 Article Thackeray's Gourmand: Carnivals of Consumption in "Vanity Fair" - Christoph Lindner, May, 2002 Article 'Longing for Sleeve Buttons', chapter of Novels Behind Glass Chapter 'Vanity Fair: Production and Accounting', chapter of Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W.M. Thackeray - Peter Shillingsburg Chapter Household Clearances in Victorian Fiction | Trotter | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century - David Trotter Article Cranford and the gendering of things (6 items) Cranfordism and the 'Scraps, Patches, and Rags of Daily Life' - Jeffrey Cass Article Commodity and collectivity: Cranford in the context of Household Words, - Huett, Lorna., 2003 Article | Copy not held by Library CRANFORD AND THE VICTORIAN COLLECTION. - Dolin, Tim Article 'Conservation in Cranford', Chapter 3 Chapter Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford: a publishing history - Recchio, Thomas, c2009 Book 'Ephemerality and the Cranford Papers', Chapter 2 Chapter Exhibitionary cultures (4 items) Victorian prism: refractions of the Crystal Palace - Buzard, James, Childers, Joseph W., Gillooly, Eileen, 2007 Book 'Introduction;, Chapter Chapter 'Introduction', Chapter 3/10 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent Chapter Chapter 1 Chapter Hard Times and Dickens's Journalism (14 items) 'Household Words' and the Factory Accident Controversy - Peter W.J. Bartrip, 1979 Article Hard Times: The News and the Novel - Joseph Butwin, 1977-09 Article 'Industrial Culture and the Victorian Novel', Chapter - Joseph W. Childers Chapter "A Certain Shadow": Personified Abstractions and the Form of <i>Household Words</i> - Jonathan V. Farina, 2009 Article 'Characterising the Factory System: Factory Subjectivity in Household Words', Article - Jonathan V. Farina Article 'Hard Times and the Factory Controversy', Chapter - K.J. Fielding, Anne Smith Chapter 'Culture, Machines, and Cultural Industry', Chapter Chapter 'The Human Prosthesis: Workers and Machines in the Victorian Industrial Scene', Article - Tamara Ketabgian, 1997 Article The lives of machines: the industrial imaginary in Victorian literature and culture - Ketabgian, Tamara Siroone, c2011 Book "Melancholy Mad Elephants": Affect and the Animal Machine in Hard Times. - Ketabgian, Tamara Article MACHINE DREAMS: THE CULTURE OF TECHNOLOGY - Sussman, Herbert, 2000/03/01 Article Prefiguring the Posthuman: Dickens and Prosthesis - Herbert Sussman, Gerhard Joseph, 2004 Article "Fairy Palaces" and "Wonderful Toys": Machine Dreams in "Household Words." - Waters, Catherine 4/10 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent Article Chapter 5 Chapter Lady Audley's Secret and consuming passions (8 items) ON THE TRACK OF THINGS: SENSATION AND MODERNITY IN MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON'S LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET - Eva Badowska, 2009-2-5 Article New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 2012 Book THE LITERARY PORTRAIT AS CENTERFOLD: FETISHISM IN MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON'S LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET - Lynette Felber, 2007-6-29 Article Chapter 5 Chapter Chapter 2 Chapter Marketing Sensation: Lady Audley's Secret and Consumer Culture - Katherine Montwieler Chapter Chapter 2 Chapter In Lady Audley's shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian literary genres - Tomaiuolo, Saverio, c2010 Book Great Expectations and portable property (7 items) Two kinds of clothing: Sartor Resartus and Great Expectations - Bernard Beatty Chapter The Late Novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend - B. Cheadle Chapter Chapter 3 Chapter COMMODITY AND IDENTITY IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Sean Grass, 2012-5-30 Article `Pip' and `Property': The (re)production of the self in Great Expectations. - Houston, Gail Turley 5/10 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent Article Bodies of capital: Great Expectations and the climacteric economy. - Walsh, Susan Article Chapter 2 Chapter Our Mutual Friend (8 items) “Pictures in the Fire”: the Dickensian Hearth and the Concept of History - Adelene Buckland, 2009 Article Chapter 4 Chapter Dismemberment and Articulation in Our Mutual Friend - Albert O. Hutter, 1983 Article Becoming Automatous: Automata in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend | Inglis | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century - Katherine Inglis Article Chapter 2 of The social life of fluids Chapter Chapter 4 Chapter Chapter 8 Chapter A SPECULATIVE RESURRECTION: DEATH, MONEY, AND THE VAMPIRIC ECONOMY OF OUR MUTUAL FRIEND - Daniel P. Scoggin, 2002-3 Article Conclusions (2 items) Chapter 8 Chapter Things, Words and the Meanings of Art - Juliet John Chapter Further Reading (49 items) The English common reader: a social history of the mass reading public, 1800-1900 - Altick, Richard Daniel, [1963, c1957] 6/10 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent Book The presence of the present: topics of the day in the Victorian novel - Altick, Richard Daniel, 1991 Book Chapter 1: A Community of Readers in Charles Dickens and his performing selves: Dickens and the public readings Chapter Victorian glassworlds: glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 - Armstrong, Isobel, c2008 Book The Great Exhibition of 1851: a nation on display - Auerbach, Jeffrey A., 1999 Book On the Track of Things: Sensation and Modernity in Mary Elizabeth Braddons Lady Audleys Secret - Badowska, Eva., 2009 Article | Both paper and electronic copies avaliable. On exhibit: Victorians and their museums - Black, Barbara J., 2000 Book The birth of the museum: history, theory, politics - Bennett, Tony, 1995 Book Victorian things - Briggs, Asa, 1988 Book | Later editions avaliable in the library. Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination - Christ, Carol T., Jordan, John O., 1995 Book The Victorian treasure-house - Conrad, Peter, 1973 Book | No copy held by the library. Imperial Chintz: Domesticity and Empire - David, Deirdre., 1999 Article | Both paper and electronic copy avaliable. The nineteenth-century child and consumer culture - Denisoff, Dennis, 2008 Book Dickens the journalist - Drew, John M. L., 2003 Book Modes of production of Victorian novels - Feltes, N. N., c1986, 1989 Book The ideas in things: fugitive meaning in the Victorian novel - Freedgood, Elaine, 2006 Book 7/10 10/02/21 Dickens and the Material Culture of the Victorian Novel | University of Kent The material interests of the Victorian novel - Hack, Daniel, 2005 Book The Victorian serial - Hughes, Linda K., Lund, Michael, 1991 Book Dickens and mass culture - John, Juliet, 2010 Book Literature in the marketplace: nineteenth-century British publishing and reading practices - Jordan, John O., Patten, Robert L., 1995
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