What happens when--in the series novel, or in contemporary theory--the everyday becomes a site of contestation and debate? Langbauer pursues this question through the novels of Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, and Arthur Conan Doyle--and in the writings of Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and John Galsworthy as they reflect on their Victorian predecessors. She also explores accounts of the everyday in the works of such theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Sigmund Freud, as well as materialist critics, including George Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Her work shows how these writers link the series and the everyday in ways that reveal different approaches to comprehending the obscurity that makes up daily life.
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Laurie Langbauer argues that our worldview is shaped not just by great public events but also by the most overlooked and familiar aspects of common life--"the everyday." This sphere of the everyday has always been a crucial component of the novel, but has been ignored by many writers and critics and long associated with the writing of women. Focusing on the linked series of novels characteristic of later Victorian and early modern fiction--such as Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Chronicles or the Sherlock Holmes stories--she investigates how authors make use of the everyday as a foundation to support their versions of realism.
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In the hotly contested debate about the canon and about literary value, what does it mean that almost half a centuryfor some, a whole lifetimecan be considered a minor period? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Virginia Woolf, Novels of Everyday Life, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, Clarissa Dalloway, Three Guineas, Charlotte Yonge, Margaret Oliphant, Room of One's Own, Sherlock Holmes, African American, Henry James, Richard Dalloway, Lady Glencora, Miss Kilman, Miss Yonge, Tania Modleski, Dorian Gray, Hillis Miller, The Voyage Out, Collected Essays, Phineas Finn, Situationist International, Oxford University Press New!
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In the hotly contested debate about the canon and about literary value, what does it mean that almost half a centuryfor some, a whole lifetimecan be considered a minor period? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Virginia Woolf, Novels of Everyday Life, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, Clarissa Dalloway, Three Guineas, Charlotte Yonge, Margaret Oliphant, Room of One's Own, Sherlock Holmes, African American, Henry James, Richard Dalloway, Lady Glencora, Miss Kilman, Miss Yonge, Tania Modleski, Dorian Gray, Hillis Miller, The Voyage Out, Collected Essays, Phineas Finn, Situationist International, Oxford University Press New!
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- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf on 9 pages
- The Voyage Out (Penguin Modern Classics Fiction) by Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jane Wheare Virginia Woolf on 9 pages
- Everyday Life in the Modern World (Classics in Communication and Mass Culture) by Henri Lefebvre on 6 pages
- Man of Property (Forsyte Saga) by John Galsworthy on 5 pages
- The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope on 5 pages
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