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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;113061 _d;22/12/2018
082			_a823.809 HAC
100			_aDaniel Hack
245			_aThe material interests of the Victorian novel _c/Daniel Hack
260			_aCharlottesville _b : University of Virginia Press _c, 2005.
300			_axi, 226 pages _c; 23 cm.
365			_b3176
490			_aVictorian literature and culture series.
505			_a Renewing the dyer's hand -- Paratexts and periwigs : The history of Henry Esmond and the history of the author -- Reading matter in Bleak House and the "Bleak House advertiser" -- As bad as they seem? professional authors and literary paupers -- Sympathy for the begging-letter writer -- Moses and the advertisement sheet: Daniel Deronda's earthly mixtures.
520			_aTaking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this new book to recover the ways in which the multiple aspects of writing now conjured by that term were represented and related to one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Diverging from much contemporary criticism, he argues that attention to the writing's material components and contexts does not by itself constitute reading against the grain. On the contrary, the Victorian discourse on authorship and the novels Hack discusses - including works by Dickens Eliot, Thackeray, and Collins - actively investigate the significance and mutual relevance of the written word or printed word's physicality, the exchange of texts for money, the workings of signification, and the corporeality of writers, readers, and characters
650			_aLiterature
655			_aMaterial culture in literature _bEnglish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
700			_aDaniel Hack
942			_cBOOK
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