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Victorian vulgarity : taste in verbal and visual culture / edited by Susan David Bernstein and Elsie B. Michie.

Contributor(s): Bernstein, Susan David | Michie, Elsie B. (Elsie Browning), 1948-Publication details: Farnham : Ashgate, c2009. Description: x, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780754664055Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Vulgarity in literature | Vulgarity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 820.9353 | 820.935509034 LOC classification: PR468. | V86V53 2009
Contents:
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.
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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.