Still Life
Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel
- Publisher's listprice GBP 87.00
-
41 564 Ft (39 585 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 4 156 Ft off)
- Discounted price 37 408 Ft (35 627 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
41 564 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 January 2016
- ISBN 9780190250041
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 236x155x25 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 halftones 0
Categories
Short description:
Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep.
MoreLong description:
Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep. These states challenge contemporary scientific and philosophical accounts of the perfectibility of the self, which privileged reflective self-awareness. In dialogue with the field of literature and science studies and affect studies, this book shows how Victorian writers used narrative form to respond to the analytical practices and knowledge production of those other disciplines. Drawing upon canonical texts--by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy--Still Life contends that depictions of non-purposive perceptual experience suspend the processes of self-cultivation (Bildung) central to Victorian aesthetics, science, psychology, and political theory, as well as most critical accounts of the novel form. Departing from the values of individual cultivation and moral revelation associated with the genre, these writers offer an affective framework for understanding the subtly non-instrumental powers of narrative. Victorian novels ostensibly working within the parameters of the Bildungsroman are suspended by moments of "still life": a decentered lyricism associated with states of diminished consciousness. They use this style to narrate what should be unnarratable: experiences not dependent on reflective consciousness, which express a distinctive ambivalence toward dominant developmental frameworks of individual self-culture.
In her original and fascinating new book, Still Life: Suspended development in the Victorian novel ... Elisha Cohn traces the afterlife of Romantic and Wordsworthian ideals of dreamy passiveness in the context of later nineteenth-century Bildungsromane ... Elisha Cohn's book might itself come to embody a form of criticism which attempts both to describe and enact a wise passiveness.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: First Person
Charlotte Brontë's Suspended Animation
CHAPTER TWO: Omniscience
Unknowing George Eliot
CHAPTER THREE: The Long Poem
George Meredith's Sleep
CHAPTER FOUR: From Novel to Poem
Thomas Hardy's Ethical Turn
CODA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
