Victorian vulgarity :
Victorian vulgarity : taste in verbal and visual culture /
edited by Susan David Bernstein and Elsie B. Michie.
- Farnham : Ashgate, c2009.
- x, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Varieties of vulgarity / Elsie B. Michie and Susan David Bernstein -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
9780754664055
2008049799
GBA939395 bnb
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Vulgarity in literature.
Vulgarity--History--Great Britain--19th century.
PR468. / V86V53 2009
820.9353 820.935509034
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Varieties of vulgarity / Elsie B. Michie and Susan David Bernstein -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
9780754664055
2008049799
GBA939395 bnb
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Vulgarity in literature.
Vulgarity--History--Great Britain--19th century.
PR468. / V86V53 2009
820.9353 820.935509034