Reading Constellations Patricia McKee (Professor of English, Professor of English, Dartmouth College)

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Reading Constellations uses Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James.

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Reading Constellations: Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction by Patricia McKee (Professor of English, Professor of English, Dartmouth College)

Reading Constellations uses Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine four canonical Victorian novels by Dickens, Hardy, and James. Throughout its chapters, the monograph deploys the dialectical notion of the constellation to read moments in novels in which past and present interpenetrate and the ways these writers open out the representation of the city to new modes of articulation and-through narrative perception- the reader's perception of the phenomena of the city, its place as the exemplar of modernity, and the ways in which it determines subjectivity.

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McKee has brilliantly appropriated Benjamin's concept of the 'constellation' to show, in detailed readings, how, in four Victorian novels, not only are history and the city made of disintegrated parts, but also how 'persons come apart and pieces of them get relocated in other persons.' A challenging and strikingly original book. * J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine *

About Patricia McKee (Professor of English, Professor of English, Dartmouth College)

Patricia McKee is Professor of English and Edward Hyde Cox Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. She is the author of several books, including Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel , 1764-1878 (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison (Duke UP, 1999).

Table of Contents ; Chapter One: Reading the Victorian City ; Chapter Two: Great Expectations: The Narrative Winks ; Chapter Three: London Looking Backward: Our Mutual Friend ; Chapter Four: Scenes of Reading in Jude the Obscure ; Chapter Five: Urban Spaces In the Cage ; Bibliography

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Reading Constellations: Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction by Patricia McKee (Professor of English, Professor of English, Dartmouth College)

Author

Patricia McKee (Professor of English, Professor of English, Dartmouth College)

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Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

20140403

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208

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