Research Catalog

Title

Paraphernalia! : Victorian objects / edited by Helen Kingstone and Kate Lister.

Publication

New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kingstone, Helen
• Lister, Kate

Description

xvi, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically associated with paraphernalia. This collection of essays explores the Victorians through their materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian; which objects defined them, represented them, were uniquely theirs; and how reading the Victorians, through their possessions, can deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. Miscellaneous and often auxiliary, paraphernalia becomes the ̀disjecta' of everyday life, deemed neither valuable enough for museums nor symbolic enough for purely literary study. This interdisciplinary collection looks at the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up the background of Victorian life: Valentine's cards, fish tanks, sugar plums, china ornaments, hair ribbons, dresses and more. Contributors also, however, consider how we use Victorian objects to construct the Victorian today; museum spaces, the relation of Victorian text to object, and our reading - or gazing at - Victorian advertisements out of context on searchable online databases. Responding to thing theory and modern scholarship on Victorian material culture, this book addresses five key concerns of Victorian materiality: collecting; defining class in the home; objects becoming things; objects to texts; objects in circulation through print culture.

Series Statement

The nineteenth century series

Uniform Title

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Subject

• 1800-1901
• Victoriana
• Art objects, Victorian
• Civilization
• Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901
• Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 18-5480

ISBN

• 9780815387817
• 0815387814

LCCN

99976552833

OCLC

1029654420

Title

Paraphernalia! : Victorian objects / edited by Helen Kingstone and Kate Lister.

Publisher

New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The nineteenth century series

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1901

Added Author

Kingstone, Helen, editor.

Lister, Kate, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

99976552833

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5480