TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boehm-Schnitker, Nadine
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024//
TI  - Towards an aisthetics of the Victorian novel: senses and sensations
T3  - Among the Victorians and Modernists
PB  - Routledge
CY  - New York, NY
KW  - English fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Senses and sensation in literature
KW  - Aesthetics in literature
KW  - Roman anglais - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique
KW  - Sens et sensations dans la littérature
KW  - Esthétique dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Critiques littéraires
AB  - "Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts. Taking cultural literary studies ahead, the book re-integrates aesthetics - a much fraught concept in cultural studies that long favoured 'popular' over 'high culture' - into cultural studies as aisthetics in the word's root sense of 'perception'. Zooming in on period shifts and changes in taste spanning realism, sensation fiction and aestheticism, aisthetics reveals how these shifts also pertain to new ways of perceiving in selected novels by George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Vernon Lee. Connecting Victorian and current literary theories, aisthetics helps explore the way in which the novel can shape the way we perceive the world, what remains excluded from the realm of the perceivable and how our conduct is consequently always also influenced by the dominant genres of our time"--
SN  - 1003387519
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3681815
LA  - English
N1  - Nadine Böhm-Schnitker
ID  - 188591735X
ER  -