Knowing the past : Victorian literature and culture
To what extent is it possible to know the past or to know other cultures? Can one describe the past without imposing one's own cultural, political, social, or personal preconceptions? Testing the current skepticism that insists that it is impossible...
Aufsatzsammlung
ix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801438844, 9780801487651, 0801438845, 080148765X
47023437
Text vs. hypertext: seeing the Victorian object as in itself it really is / Gerhard Joseph
The golden bough and the unknowable / Christopher Herbert
Daniel Deronda: a new epistemology / George Levine
Walter Pater's impressionism and the form of historical revival Carolyn Williams
Arnold and the authorization of criticism / Herbert F. Tucker
Aesthetics, ethics, and unreadable acts in George Eliot / Jonathan Loesberg
The structure of anxiety in political economy and Hard times / Mary Poovey
How to be a benefactor without any money: the chill of welfare in Great expectations / Bruce Robbins
Tracking the sentimental eye / Judith Stoddart
Knowing and telling in Dickens's retrospects / Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Inside the shark's mouth: William Lovett's struggle for political language / Margery Sabin
Knowing a life: Edith Simcox, Sat est vixisse? / Gillian Beer