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  1. Victorian jewelry, identity, and the novel
    prisms of culture
    Author: Arnold, Jean
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

  2. Victorian jewelry, identity, and the novel
    prisms of culture
    Author: Arnold, Jean
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

    Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West, arguing that gems symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered "prisms of culture." Her close readings of works by... more

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    Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West, arguing that gems symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered "prisms of culture." Her close readings of works by Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope show jewels turned into symbols of power, personal relationships, and valued ideas that serve to bind the materialist culture together

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1283115530; 9781409421276; 9781409421283; 9781283115537
    Subjects: Object (Aesthetics) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Gems; Values in literature; Values; Material culture; Jewelry in literature; Gems in literature; Material culture in literature; English fiction
    Scope: Online-Ressource (x, 172 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Jewels and the Formation of Identity in Victorian Literature and Culture; 2 Perceiving Objects; 3 The Commodity Fetish in Thackeray's The Great Hoggarty Diamond; 4 Gift, Theft, and Exchange in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; 5 Cameo Appearances: Aesthetics and Gender in Middlemarch; 6 Tactics and "Strate-Gems": Jewelry, Gender, and the Law in Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds; Afterword; Bibliography; Index