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Paraphernalia! : Victorian objects
Title
Paraphernalia! : Victorian objects / edited by Helen Kingstone and Kate Lister.
ISBN
1351172816
1351172824
1351172832
1351172840
9781351172813
9781351172820
9781351172837
9781351172844
9780815387817
Publication
New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations
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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.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Paraphernalia! New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
The nineteenth century series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : It's a Victorian thing / Helen Kingstone, Kate Lister
1. The bazaars of London's West End in the nineteenth century / Rohan McWilliam
2. The bric-à-bracquer's étagère or whatnot : staging artistic taste in the aesthetic house beautiful / Anne Anderson
3. Rossetti's things : the artist and his accessories / Thad Logan
4. The dark side of the tank : the marine aquarium in the Victorian home / Silvia Granata
5. A chimney-piece in Plumtree-Court, Holborn : plaster of paris images and nineteenth-century working-class material culture / Ralph Mills
6. The secret lives of dead animals : exploring Victorian taxidermy / Julia Courtney
7. Objects of anxiety in nineteenth-century children's literature : Edith Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett / Valerie Sanders
8. Within the coil of things : the figurative use of devotional objects in the poetical works of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Oscar Wilde / Francois Ropert
9. Golden lies? Reading locks of hair in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Tennyson's The Ringlet / Heather Hind
10. The art of curling up : Charles Dickens and the feeling of curl papers / Sophie Ratcliffe
11. Woman's dress as a polemical object in the mid-Victorian period / Odile Boucher-Rivalain
12. Paper love : valentines in Victorian culture / Alice Crossley
13. Exotic bodies and mundane medicines : advertising and empire in the late-Victorian and Edwardian press / Peter Yeandle.
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