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The romantic sublime and middle-class subjectivity in the Victorian novel

Title
The romantic sublime and middle-class subjectivity in the Victorian novel / Stephen Hancock.
Author
Hancock, Stephen.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description
ix, 204 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Uniform Title
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1832-1902
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Sublime, The, in literature
  • Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
  • Middle class in literature
  • Subjectivity in literature
  • English fiction
  • Literature and society
  • Romanticism
  • Das Erhabene
  • Englisch
  • Mittelstand Motiv
  • Roman
  • Victoriaanse tijd
  • Romans
  • Romantiek
  • Literature and society > Great Britain > 19th century
  • Roman
  • Great Britain
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
Contents
Moral authority and the sublime : Kantian idealism, Burkean empiricism, and the absolutely small -- "That huge fermenting mass" : Wordsworth and the divisible self -- Percy Bysshe Shelley's sublime woman and the divisible sublime -- The sublime woman and the mature middle-class man in Middlemarch -- Fearing their bodies : the king, the queen, and the sublime in Thackeray -- How little is Dorrit? : Dickens and the sublimity of absolute smallness -- Jude the obscure and the tragedy of aesthetic ideology.
ISBN
  • 041597545X
  • 9780415975452
LCCN
  • 2005017510
  • 9780415975452
OCLC
  • ocm60791473
  • 60791473
  • SCSB-14508455
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library