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Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

By: Jessica Durgan

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Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

By: Jessica Durgan

As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were also trained as artists dream up fantastically colored characters for their fiction. These strange and eccentric characters include the purple madwoman Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), the blue gentleman Oscar Dubourg from Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch (1872), the red peddler Diggory Venn in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native (1878), and the little yellow girls of Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Yellow Face" (1893) and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911). While color has been historically viewed as suspicious and seductive in Western culture, the Victorian period constitutes a significant moment in the history of color: the rapid development of new color technologies and the upheavals of the first avant-garde art movements result in an increase in coloring’s prestige in the art academies. At the same time, race science appropriates color, using it as a criterion for classification in the establishment of global racial hierarchies. These artist-authors draw on color’s traditional association with constructions of otherness to consider questions of identity and difference through the imaginative possibilities of color.

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0429639597

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Victorian Sensation Fiction

By: Jessica Cox

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Victorian Sensation Fiction

By: Jessica Cox

Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350309486

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Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

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Against All Odds

By: Jessica Renee

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Against All Odds

By: Jessica Renee

Step into the lives of Sevyn, Cali and Ty as they face the test of every day challenges. Each woman strives to with stand the test of survival, forgiveness, and acceptance. Each with their own priority in focus can they make it or will life swallow them whole?! With the odds stacked heavily against them, see how things go from sugar to shit in the blink of an eye.

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Lulu.com

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1329083407

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Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

Victorian Sensation Fiction

Victorian Sensation Fiction

Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

Against All Odds

Against All Odds

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