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Published by University of Virginia Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0813918936ISBN 13: 9780813918938
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809319535ISBN 13: 9780809319534
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. About the AuthorGail Turley Houston is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University.Product DescriptionIn this remarkable study, Gail Turley Houston examines the rich interplay of consumption as alimental process, medical entity, psychological construct, and economic practice in order to explore Charles Dickenss fictional representations of Victorian culture as he presents it in his novels. Drawing from medical, historical, economic, psychoanalytic, and biographical materials from the Victorian period, Houston anchors her work in the belief that if class and gender are fictional constructions, real peoples lives are affected in complex and coercive ways by such constructions.Proceeding chronologically, Houston traces particular patterns throughout ten of Dickenss major novels: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Houston maintains that Victorian codes ofbehavior prescribed for gender and class regarding sexual and alimental appetites were so extreme and complicated that numerous consequent eating disorders and related diseases developed. Ideologies about consumption translated into medically defined consumptions, such as anorexia. Using anorexia and its etiology as representative of an underlying cultural dynamics of consumption, Houston examines anorexia as a deep structure of the Victorian period.Further, consumption as economic process is reflected in the expansion of individual material desires at the expense of the designated body politic. In other words, extravagant consumption occurs in society only if certain groups-usually consisting of lower-class men and women and, in Dickenss novels, women in general-are severely limited in their consumption.To support her approach, Houston turns to Rita Felskis Beyond Feminist Aesthetics, agreeing with Felskis argument that it is necessary to recognize the complex dialectics that take place between the individual and society. Not only does culture construct human beings, but human beings also construct culture. Felskis theory aids Houston in emphasizing that Dickens not only influenced but was also greatly influenced by the Victorian dynamics of consumption. In fact, Houston argues that while Dickens dismantles Victorian ideologies about class and hunger by demonstrating the unnaturalness of expecting one class to starve so that another might gluttonize, he nevertheless accepts and perpetuates the Victorian identification of woman as the self-sacrificing, always-nurturing "angel in the house" without need of nurture herself.This extraordinary book will appeal to literary scholars, as well as to scholars in the social sciences, history, humanistically oriented medicine, and womens studies.Review"This book is unquestionably a singular contribution to its field. It presents a systematic close analysis of all of Dickenss novels from the perspective of gender and hunger. What is more, it contextualizes its findings into the large framework of Victorian England, particularly the role of a capitalist, consumer society. There can be no doubt as to the importance of the field: a major author studied in relation to the dominant social problems of his day."-Lilian R. Furst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Published by Ohio State University Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 0814255132ISBN 13: 9780814255131
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.
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Published by Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2005., 2005
ISBN 10: 0521846773ISBN 13: 9780521846776
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
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Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xv, [1], 165, [1]. [4] catalogue. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Corners and spine tips lightly bruised, and front pastedown a little marked otherwise clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. A hint of creasing to rear of jacket. A near fine copy in like jacket. An examination of the ways in which" language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period". Houston demonstrates that ".the worlds of Victorian economics and Gothic fiction, though seemingly separate, actually complemented and enriched each other." (from jacket front flap).
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0521045797ISBN 13: 9780521045797
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9780521045797.
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Published by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDE, 2006
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.
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BLACK CLOTH. Condition: FINE (PRISTINE CONDITION). Dust Jacket Condition: FINE (PRISTINE CONDITION). FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING THUS. NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES. Size: OCTAVO.
Published by The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 2013
ISBN 10: 0814212107ISBN 13: 9780814212103
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, with full number line. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., xi, 181 pp. Photo-illustrated, glossy paper boards. Light shelf wear.
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Published by Cambridge University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0521846773ISBN 13: 9780521846776
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Fast Shipping from the UK. No. book.
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Published by Routledge, 2022
ISBN 10: 0367187515ISBN 13: 9780367187514
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Routledge, 2022
ISBN 10: 0367187523ISBN 13: 9780367187521
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Published by Routledge, 2022
ISBN 10: 0367187531ISBN 13: 9780367187538
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Taylor & Francis, 2022
ISBN 10: 036718754XISBN 13: 9780367187545
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Published by Taylor & Francis, 2022
ISBN 10: 0367187507ISBN 13: 9780367187507
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Gail Turley Houston, Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies, University of New Mexico, USAIn the age of empire, Victorians and Romantics over the long 19th century faced issues of governance that no other society had faced on such a.