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Time, domesticity and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain / Maria Damkjær.
Author
Damkjær, Maria, 1983-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Description
1 online resource
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English literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Periodicals
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Publishing
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Great Britain
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History
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19th century
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Home in literature
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Time in literature
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Domestic relations in literature
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Series
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Summary note
Time, Domesticity and Print Culture combines literary criticism with innovative readings of texts' material form. The author argues that the way writing was transmitted as monthly instalments or periodical articles contributed to its representative power. The study's focus is domestic time; it shows that writers in the nineteenth century were anxious to describe the middle-class home as a temporal entity and not just a spatial one. In order to describe temporal practices such as repetitive housework, interruption and everyday processes, writers had to negotiate not just narrative, but also the printed page and the serial instalment. This book traces a spectrum from literary fiction Bleak House by Dickens and North and South by Gaskell to less linear forms like periodical writing, Isabella Beeton's cookery book and the private album, in order to argue that print culture was saturated with domestic temporality.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March).
Contents
Introduction: Timetabling and its failures
Repetition: Making domestic time in Bleak House and the 'Bleak House Advertiser'
Interruption: the periodical press and the drive for realism
Division into parts: Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and the serial instalment
Decomposition: Mrs Beeton and the non-linear text
Coda: Scrapbooking and the reconfiguration of domestic time.
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ISBN
9781137542885 ((electronic bk.))
1137542888 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
945735414
Doi
10.1057/9781137542885.
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Textual curation : authorship, agency, and technology in Wikipedia and Chambers's Cyclopædia / Krista Kennedy.
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Time, domesticity and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain / Maria Damkjær.
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