Knowing the past : Victorian literature and culture / edited by Suzy Anger.

Other author Anger, Suzy.
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Descriptionix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Knowledge, Theory of--History. --19th century.
Hermeneutics--History. --19th century.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.

Contents Text vs. hypertext: seeing the Victorian object as in itself it really is / Gerhard Joseph -- The golden bough and the unknowable / Christopher Herbert -- Daniel Deronda: a new epistemology / George Levine -- Walter Pater's impressionism and the form of historical revival Carolyn Williams -- Arnold and the authorization of criticism / Herbert F. Tucker -- Aesthetics, ethics, and unreadable acts in George Eliot / Jonathan Loesberg -- The structure of anxiety in political economy and Hard times / Mary Poovey -- How to be a benefactor without any money: the chill of welfare in Great expectations / Bruce Robbins -- Tracking the sentimental eye / Judith Stoddart -- Knowing and telling in Dickens's retrospects / Rosemarie Bodenheimer -- Inside the shark's mouth: William Lovett's struggle for political language / Margery Sabin -- Knowing a life: Edith Simcox, Sat est vixisse? / Gillian Beer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001002877
ISBN0801438845 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080148765X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR468.K56 K58 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold