Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel

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.

Autorentext

Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (Ph.D.) works as a stand-in professor for English Studies: Literature at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. She specializes in neo-Victorian and Victorian Studies and serves as associate editor of the online journal Neo-Victorian Studies. In her second book project, she explored the cultural history of perception in nineteenth-century texts as well as the re-evaluation of aesthetics in terms of aisthetics within Cultural Studies. Her current projects deal with the cultural legacy of the Opium Wars, practices of comparing and ecocriticsm.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Introduction: Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel

1. Aisthetics: Theory and Toolkit

2. Realisms: George Eliot

3. Sensationalisms: Wilkie Collins

4. Aestheticisms: Vernon Lee