TY - BOOK AU - Hancock,Stephen TI - The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel T2 - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory SN - 9781135492922 AV - PR878.S824 H36 2013 U1 - 823.809384823/.809384 PY - 2013/// CY - Hoboken PB - Taylor and Francis KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Sublime, The, in literature KW - Literature and society KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Romanticism KW - Middle class in literature KW - Subjectivity in literature KW - Roman anglais KW - 19e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Sublime dans la littérature KW - Littérature et société KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Histoire KW - Romantisme KW - Subjectivité dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=658461 ER -