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1 online resource |
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Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature- Front Cover; Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: hunger, taste, mobility; Self-regulation: the market and the individual; The development of taste; The political economy of taste; The mobility of hunger; Chapter 1: Rewriting riots past; The dangers of France; The taste of wine, black bread, and death; Breaking bread; breaking wine; 'Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard'; Voices of hunger unified in violence; Chapter 2: Humanising the mob |
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Collective hungerHungry foreigners; Civilised voices unheard; Cooperatives and compassion; Chapter 3: Disenfranchised communities; Criminals, vagrants, and exiles; 'The exile is free to land upon our shores, and free to perish of hunger beneath our inclement skies'; 'Native unsettledness': Itinerancy and travelling performers; Domestic spaces and property; Chapter 4: Educating transgressive tastes; Educating the palate; Exceeding the boundaries of taste; The two-edged sword of a taste of freedom; Self-moderating hunger; Chapter 5: Social communion |
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A little solace from Sabbath to Sabbath: self-starvation and institutionalised abuseSelf-interested hunger in the community; Relating through taste; Conclusion: 'Taste them and try'-the risks of tasting in an insatiable market; Perverting nature in the name of labour; The goblins as anti-capitalist demons; Hunger for community; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"In Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature, Lesa Scholl explores the ways in which the language of starvation interacts with narratives of emotional and intellectual want to create a dynamic, evolving notion of hunger. Scholl's interdisciplinary study emphasises literary analysis, sensory history, and political economy to interrogate the progression of hunger in Britain from the early 1830s to the late 1860s. Examining works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Mayhew, and Charlotte Brontë, Scholl argues for the centrality of hunger in social development and understanding. She shows how the rhetoric of hunger moves beyond critiques of physical starvation to a paradigm in which the dominant narrative of civilisation is predicated on the continual progress and evolution of literal and metaphorical taste. Her study makes a persuasive case for how hunger, as a signifier of both individual and corporate ambition, is a necessarily self-interested and increasingly violent agent of progress within the discourse of political economy that emerged in the eighteenth century and subsequently shaped nineteenth-century social and political life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 17, 2016) |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Hunger in literature.
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Taste in literature.
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Hunger -- Great Britain -- History
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Social evolution -- History
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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Hunger
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Hunger in literature
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Literature and society
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Social evolution
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Taste in literature
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Hunger Motiv
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Migration Motiv
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317119357 |
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1317119355 |
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9781315587660 |
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1315587661 |
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9781317119340 |
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1317119347 |
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