Vanishing realities. Social significance of material culture in Victorian novelistic discourse

Agnieszka Setecka

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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza

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Setecka, Agnieszka. Vanishing realities. Social significance of material culture in Victorian novelistic discourse. Red. . Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2013, 342 s. ISBN 978-83-232-2568-3

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-232-2568-3

DOI:

Wydawnictwo:

Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza

Rok wydania:

2013

Liczba stron:

342

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ONIX MARC21

List of abbreviations8
Acknowledgements10
Introduction12
Chapter One: “[A] single drop of ink for a mirror”: The historical validity of realist fiction 24
1. The novel and history26
2. New developments in contemporary historiography33
3. New and Old Historicism38
4. “Historicity of texts” and “textuality of history”. Literature as a historical source44
4.1. Literary and non-literary texts45
4.2. The realist novel53
4.3. Textuality of history and the problem of reference; referentiality and truth64
Chapter Two: Culture and ideology 70
1. “Culture and civilisation tradition”71
2. T.S. Eliot and his anthropological definition of culture77
3. From cultural studies to the poetics of culture80
4. Culture, ideology, literature101
Chapter Three: Society “[h]ooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes”. The relationship of sartorial codes to class and morality 108
1. Traditional sources for histories of costume110
2. “Clothes ( .) are so unspeakably significant”: Clothing as a signifying practice114
3. “Finery is not gentility”. The relation of clothing and social position122
4. “[E]ar-rings and fine gowns and caps”: Clothing as an expression of moral values132
5. To “sham decently”: Destabilising relations between clothes and virtue in Ruth and East Lynne140
6. “[C]oncealing natural deficiencies”: Clothes and deception in Victorian fiction152
6.1. “[G]ive her a part to play”: dress as disguise in The Eustace Diamonds156
6.2. Tactical use of dress in Can You Forgiver Her?168
6.3. “A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown”: Dress as constitutive of class in No Name175
Chapter Four: “[A] temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods”: the representation of the domestic sphere in Victorian fiction 182
1. The novel and traditional historical sources on the Victorian home185
2. “[A] chasm about four feet wide, and two deep”: the Victorian home and its borders187
3. The heart of a home: An ideal parlour190
4. The parlour and the kitchen209
5. A woman’s kingdom and the feminine influence220
5.1. Women leaving the domestic haven: Dinah Craik and Frances Power Cobbe223
5.2. “The petticoat government”: Home as an arena of public life226
5.3. “The one great drawback to the life of women is that they cannot act in politics”239
Chapter Five: To “labour at pianoforte sonatas”: The representation of work and leisure in Victorian fiction 250
1. Victorian concepts of leisure and work253
2. Work and leisure or work as leisure: Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe 258
3. An accomplished lady and a professional woman267
3.1. “[M]y darling playmates once, must be my sober toil-fellows now”: the novelistic representation of women artists270
3.2. “[A]ll more or less ply the busy needle”: the representation of needlework in Victorian literature283
3.3. “Elegant economy” or disguising work and poverty: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford and Anthony Trollope’s Prime Minister296
4. “Something to do”: Dinah Craik’s glorification of work307
Conclusions 318
References322
Streszczenie340

“[A]singledropofinkforamirror”

novelasamirrorimpliesitsabilitytoreflectparticularhistoricalreality,

andthereforeitsvalueasahistoricaldocument.

Thefollowingchapterre-examinesthecomplexrelationsbetweenthe

realistnovelandhistory,withaviewofestablishingthenovel’scredibil-

ityasahistoricalsource.Contemporaryhistoriographers,muchinspired

bypostmodernideas,pointtotheratherblurryboundarybetweenhistori-

calandliterarytexts.Notonlyaretheydeeplyawareofthetextualand

narrativenatureofhistory,buttheyalsoenlargeitsscope,byincluding

hithertoneglectedaspectsofthepastthatoncewerecommonlythedo-

mainofnovels.Thedevelopmentsinhistoriographyhavetheirequivalent

inthe“culturalturn”inliterarystudies,whichbeganasareactionagainst

formalistcriticismandwasmarkedbytheincreasedsignificanceofhis-

toricistandcontextualreadingoftexts.Theboundarybetweenaliterary

textandothertextsinaparticularcultureisobscured,sothataliterary

textcanalsobetreatedasahistoricaldocument.Thenineteenth-century

realistnovelis,however,averyspecialkindofdocument:althoughit

claimstoreflecttheworldfaithfully,itisneverthelessopenlyfictional.As

contemporarycriticsareprompttoshow,itcanhardlybetreatedsimply

asamirroraccuratelyreflectingthereal.Instead,thenovelconstructs

realityratherthanpassivelyreflectit,producingthecultureoftheperiod

anditsideologyaswellasbeingtheirproduct.Therefore,iftherealist

novelhasanyvalueashistoricalevidence,itisthroughitsrelationtoand

apartofcultureandideology.

1.Thenovelandhistory

Theemergenceofhistoryasadistinctdisciplineisusuallyidentifiedwith

thenineteenthcenturyandthefigureofLeopoldvonRanke,whostrove

fora“scientific”history.Previously,historyhadbeenconsideredapartof

literature,which,inturn,wasunderstoodasthepracticeofwriting

(Gossman1978:4).Ifhistorywasdistinguishedfromotherformsofwrit-

ing,likepoetryorepic,itwasbecauseitdifferedfromtheminregardto

thesubjectandthemeansoftreatingthesubject,but“thecraftwasthe

same”(Gossman1978:4).Thedistinction,then,wasformalratherthan

epistemological:itwasbasedondifferencesbetweenthetechnique

adoptedbythehistorianandthepoetratherthanonthenotionofveracity

orfictionality.Historydifferedfrompoetrynotsomuchbecauseitwas

truer(orlesstrue,asthecasemightbe),butbecauseitgavepriorityto

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