Sensational Things : Souvenirs, Keepsakes, and Mementos in Wilkie Collins's Fiction.
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| Author / Creator: | Fazli, Sabina. |
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| Imprint: | Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anglistische Forschungen ; v. 464 Anglistische Forschungen. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11955946 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Titel; Imprint; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Illustrations; Fig. 1 Frame and nested narratives in "After Dark" and dates of first publication; Fig. 2 Nineteenth-century domestic memorial made from hair; Fig. 3 Cover of the 1871 Smith, Elder yellowback edition of "The Dead Secret"; Fig. 4 Chantal Powell, Something She Once Said (2010); Fig. 5 Cover of the 1999 edition of Sarah Waters's "Affinity"; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Material Culture Studies; 1.2 Victorian Material Culture: "Object lessons" at the Crystal Palace and at Home
- 1.3 Overview of Criticism: Material Culture and Victorian Literature1.4 Sensation Fiction and Keepsakes; 2 "the most casual notice [...] of some very unpromising object": Keepsakes as "narrative-matter" in "After Dark"; 2.1 "I resolved to imitate the French author": Discovering Things; 2.2 Metonymic Objects; 2.2.1 "I should like it put into my portrait, sir": Framed Keepsakes; 2.2.2 "The owner of these possessions lived in the bygone time": The Past as Collection; 2.2.3 Curiosities; 2.3 Metonymic Objects as Telling Things
- 3 "I've got a design against all your heads": Connecting and Collecting Hair in "Hide and Seek"3.1 Strong Metonymic Reading and the Biography of Things; 3.2 Victorian Hair in "Hide and Seek"; 3.2.1 The Hair Market and the "Traffic" in Hair; 3.2.2 Mary's Hair Bracelet: A Biography; 3.2.3 Scalps, Scalping, and Head Hunting; 3.3 "the Samson of Kirk Street": Mat as Detective; 3.4 The Scalp and the Hair Keepsake as Uneasy Twins; 4 "Let these trifles speak for her": Keepsakes and the Letter as Bequests in "The Dead Secret"; 4.1 Reading/Writing the Letter and 'Touching' Things
- 4.1.1 Hidden Letters and Buried Writing in Collins's Fiction4.1.2 Sarah Leeson Among Things; 4.1.3 Hands and Touch in the Characterisation of Sarah Leeson; 4.2 Recording the Secret; 4.2.1 The Writing of the Letter; 4.2.2 Sarah Leeson's Collections; 4.3 The Letter and Things as Media of Transmission; 5 "Suspicious circumstances have not been investigated": Hair Keepsakes and Photography in "The Law and the Lady"; 5.1 "How comes the teacup to be broken?": Things as Evidence; 5.2 "disinterring the Major's treasures": The Search of the Room; 5.2.1 The Album; 5.2.2 Hair Souvenirs and Photographs
- 5.3 The Context of Carte-de-Visite Photography5.3.1 "There was the original": The Photograph and Identification; 5.3.2 The Carte as Reproducible Image; 5.3.3 The Carte as a 'Device of Truth'; 5.4 Keepsakes as Modern Materials and Sensational Affect; 5.4.1 The Material of "the new age "; 5.4.2 The Hair Keepsakes, Affect, and Infection; 5.5 Detection and Affect in Hair Mementos and Photographs; 6 "the last relic of Mary": The Keepsake and the Body in "The Two Destinies"; 6.1 "Disguised from each other": The Problem of Remembrance; 6.2 Memory and 'Recognition' in Things