The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel.
Hancock, Stephen.
The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel. - Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013. - 1 online resource (215 pages). - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory . - Literary criticism and cultural theory. .
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One:Moral Authority and the Sublime: Kantian Idealism, Burkean Empiricism, and the Absolutely Small; The Sublime, Moral Authority, and Monarchy; Empiricism, the Divisible Sublime and the Social Body; Sublime Womanhood; Chapter Two:""That Huge Fermenting Mass"": Wordsworth and the Divisible Self; Divisibility and Temporality; The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Liminal Space; The Liminal and Class Identity in ""Resolution and Independence"" Chapter Three:Percy Bysshe Shelley's Sublime Woman and the Divisible SublimeShelleyand the Sublime Woman; Dante, Male Violence, and the Roots of the Sublime Woman in the Cenci; Chapter Four: The Sublime Woman and the Mature Middle-Class Man in Middlemarch; Ideally Illuminated Space; Romanticism and Eliot's Sublime; Mary Shelley and Sublime Womanhood; "A kind of Shelley, You Know""; Darwin, the Sublime, and Mature Romanticism; Chapter Five:Fearing Their Bodies: The King, the Queen and the Sublime in Thackeray; The Bedchamber Incident, Fear, and the Sublime; Thackeray and the Sovereign Sublime. George III and George IVAmelia, Becky, and the Missing Sublime Woman in VanityFair; Queen Victoria and the Fear of the Feminine Sublime; Chapter Six:How Little is Dorrit?: Dickens and the Sublimity of Absolute Smallness; Vanishing Point; Amy Dorrit's Two Bodies; Tattycoram Learning to be Sublime; Chapter Seven:Jude the Obscure and the Tragedy of Aesthetic Ideology; Jude Fawley, Displaced Workers and Aesthetic Ideology; Bourgeois Sexuality and Vocation: The Tragedyof Sublime Womanhood; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
9781135492922 (electronic bk.) 1135492921 (electronic bk.)
1800-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Sublime, The, in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Middle class in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Sublime dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Romantisme--Grande-Bretagne.
Subjectivité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Middle class in literature.
Romanticism.
Subjectivity in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR878.S824 H36 2013
823.809384 823/.809384
The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel. - Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013. - 1 online resource (215 pages). - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory . - Literary criticism and cultural theory. .
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One:Moral Authority and the Sublime: Kantian Idealism, Burkean Empiricism, and the Absolutely Small; The Sublime, Moral Authority, and Monarchy; Empiricism, the Divisible Sublime and the Social Body; Sublime Womanhood; Chapter Two:""That Huge Fermenting Mass"": Wordsworth and the Divisible Self; Divisibility and Temporality; The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Liminal Space; The Liminal and Class Identity in ""Resolution and Independence"" Chapter Three:Percy Bysshe Shelley's Sublime Woman and the Divisible SublimeShelleyand the Sublime Woman; Dante, Male Violence, and the Roots of the Sublime Woman in the Cenci; Chapter Four: The Sublime Woman and the Mature Middle-Class Man in Middlemarch; Ideally Illuminated Space; Romanticism and Eliot's Sublime; Mary Shelley and Sublime Womanhood; "A kind of Shelley, You Know""; Darwin, the Sublime, and Mature Romanticism; Chapter Five:Fearing Their Bodies: The King, the Queen and the Sublime in Thackeray; The Bedchamber Incident, Fear, and the Sublime; Thackeray and the Sovereign Sublime. George III and George IVAmelia, Becky, and the Missing Sublime Woman in VanityFair; Queen Victoria and the Fear of the Feminine Sublime; Chapter Six:How Little is Dorrit?: Dickens and the Sublimity of Absolute Smallness; Vanishing Point; Amy Dorrit's Two Bodies; Tattycoram Learning to be Sublime; Chapter Seven:Jude the Obscure and the Tragedy of Aesthetic Ideology; Jude Fawley, Displaced Workers and Aesthetic Ideology; Bourgeois Sexuality and Vocation: The Tragedyof Sublime Womanhood; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
9781135492922 (electronic bk.) 1135492921 (electronic bk.)
1800-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Sublime, The, in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Middle class in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Sublime dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Romantisme--Grande-Bretagne.
Subjectivité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Middle class in literature.
Romanticism.
Subjectivity in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR878.S824 H36 2013
823.809384 823/.809384