TY - BOOK AU - Shears,Jonathon AU - Harrison,Jen ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Literary bric-�a-brac and the Victorians: from commodities to oddities T2 - The nineteenth century series AV - PR734.A73 L58 2013eb U1 - 820.9/008 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Aldershot, Hants, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate Pub. Ltd. KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Art objects in literature KW - Consumption (Economics) in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Literary bric-�a-brac: introducing things / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison -- Bric-�a-brac or architectonic�e? fragment and form in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Bricabracomania! collecting, corporeality and the problem of things / Victoria Mills -- "Beautiful things": nonsense and the museum / Anna Barton and Catherine Bates -- Browning's curiosities: The ring and the book and the "democracy of things" / Jennifer McDonell -- The bric-�a-brac wars: Robert Browning and blessed John Henry Newman / Bernard Beatty -- Inhospitable objects in M.R. James / Luke Thurston -- On the nail: functional objects in Thomas Hardy's The woodlanders / David Trotter -- Shopping to survive: consumerism and evolution in M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's secret / Sara Clayson -- Charlotte Bront�e's Frocks and Shirley's queer textiles / Deborah Wynne -- The philosopher's stone and the key to all mythologies: Mary Anne South, George Eliot and the object of knowledge / Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- The ideas in thing town: villette, art and moveable objects / Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10665946 ER -