Reading Constellations
Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20020116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Mckee (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Reading Constellations (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199333905.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4250236287 |
| Open Library | OL28524868M |
| ISBN | 9780199333905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The modern city in the works of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James disrupts the ideal of progressive improvement which often framed modernity in the Victorian imagination. This study uses Walter Benjamin’s idea of the constellation to clarify these authors’ undermining of presumptions of progressive history and to elaborate the disputed and distracted urban modernities of their fictions. What are for Benjamin modes of thinking philosophically appear in fiction with revisionary social and emotional effects, in constellations that interrupt the individual self and social relations, at times with the potential to produce new opportunities for community through these fractures
Astronomy · Constellation · Linguistics · Physics · Reading (process) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · 19th century · Cities and towns in literature · City and town life in literature · English fiction · English fiction, history and criticism · History · History and criticism · Literature and society · Space and time in literature
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |