Fashionable fictions and the currency of the nineteenth-century british novel
Auteur :
Gillingham, Lauren
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009296588
Date de publication :
12 juin 2025
Poids :
476 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.