Victorian vulgarity : taste in verbal and visual culture /: taste in verbal and visual culture. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susan David Bernstein and Elsie B. Michie.
• Other Names: Bernstein, Susan David; Michie, Elsie B (Elsie Browning), 1948-
• Contents: Contents: Introduction: varieties of vulgarity, Elsie B. Mitchie and Susan David Bernstein; Part I Vulgar Words: The vulgarity of elegance: social mobility, middle-class diction, and the Victorian novel, Beth Newman; Wulgarity and witality: on making a spectacle of oneself in Pickwick, James Buzard; Rudeness, slang, and obscenity: working-class politics in London Labour and The London Poor, Ellen Bayuk Rosenman. Part II Common Places: Vulgar Christianity, Elsie B. Michie; Breeding, education, and vulgarity: George Gissing and the lower-middle classes, Rosemary Jann; Too common readers at the British Museum, Susan David Bernstein; 'A religion of pots and pans': Jewish materialism and spiritual materiality in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto, Meri-Jane Rochelson. Part III Vulgar Middles: Gross vulgarity and the domestic ideal: Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington, Carolyn Dever; 'It went through and through me like an electric shock': celebrating vulgar female desire and the realist novel in Trollope's Ayala's Angel, Deborah Denenholz Morse; Vulgarity, stupidity, and worldliness in Middlemarch, Joseph Litvak. Part IV Visual Vulgarity: Poison books and moving pictures: vulgarity in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ronald R. Thomas; James Tissot's 'coloured photographs of vulgar society', Nancy Rose Marshall; Vulgar India from nabobs to nationalism: imperial reversals and the mediation of art, Julie F. Codell; Afterword: how Victorian was vulgarity?, John Kucich; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9353; 820.935509034; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Vulgarity in literature; Vulgarity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351875837; 1351875833
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