Overview
- Examines Victorian surface cultures through a variety of different perspectives
- Proposes new forms of surface readings in Victorian literature and culture
- Develops approaches in surface reading which offer new vistas for Victorian studies
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural ramifications of the preoccupation with the exterior. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces. They look into the surfaces of literary narratives, paintings, and film but also into natural surfaces such as skin or bark. Each chapter foregrounds what is present rather than absent in a text, while also paying attention to the surfaces that become manifest on the diegetic level of the text, be they cloth, landscapes, or human bodies or faces.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sibylle Baumbach is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Her research areas include early modern literature and cognitive literary studies, especially literary attention. She is the author of Literature and Fascination (2015) and Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy (2008).
Ulla Ratheiser is Senior Scientist for English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has a background in postcolonial studies, while her more recent research focuses on popular culture and the representation of monarchies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Skin, Silk, and Show
Editors: Sibylle Baumbach, Ulla Ratheiser
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75397-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75396-2Published: 21 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75399-3Published: 22 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75397-9Published: 20 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Cultural History, European Literature, Audio-Visual Culture