The celebration of scandal : toward the sublime in Victorian urban fiction / Carol L. Bernstein
1991, First Edition. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #407069
ISBN: 0271007184
Physical description: 214 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction -- Nineteenth-century urban sketches : Thresholds to fiction -- Rewriting the slums : Ambivalence and reversal -- The fashionable novel and the mode of hyperbole -- Visual emptiness and narrative dispersion in Gissing's later novels -- Urban figures : Negative imaginings -- The empty spaces of the urban sublime. Subjects: English fiction 19th century History and criticism; Sublime, The History 19th century; City and town life in literature; Sublime, The, in literature; Scandals in literature; English fiction; Scandals in literature.
Price: €12.95