Screen LibraryThe presence of the present：topics of the day in the Victorian novel
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| Published: |
Ohio State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Columbus |
| Publication Dates: | c1991. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in Victorian life and literature |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 854 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0814205186 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I561 |
| CLC: |
I561.064 I561.074 |
| Call Number: | I561.074/A468 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 807-835) and indexes. The glare of the present -- The topical novelists -- Forms and sources -- Events and movements -- Lapses of time -- New ways of riding and writing -- Consumer goods -- The favorite vice of the nineteenth century -- The way they looked -- The sense of place -- The great metropolis -- Names in the cultural news -- Popular entertainments -- The shady side -- Real people, more or less -- Money and occupations -- Speculation and bankruptcy -- The free and independent: I -- The free and independent: II -- Language. |