The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel

by Daniel Hack

Book Overview

Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the ways in which the multiple aspects of writing now conjured by that term were represented and related to one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Diverging from much contemporary criticism, he argues that attention to the writing's material components and contexts does not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392345X
• ISBN13: 9780813923451
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher