02645nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10665946 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 121128s2013 enk sb 001 0 eng d 2012041823 9781409439905 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409439912 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)829958400 e-uk--- PR734.A73 L58 2013eb 820.9/008 23 Literary bric-�a-brac and the Victorians [electronic resource] : from commodities to oddities / edited by Jonathon Shears, Jen Harrison. Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2013. xi, 214 p. The nineteenth century series 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. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Art objects in literature. Consumption (Economics) in literature. Electronic books. local Shears, Jonathon. Harrison, Jen. ebrary, Inc. Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10665946 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 71974 71974