Art, race, and fantastic color change in the Victorian novel / Jessica Durgan.
2019
PR878.R34 D87 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Art, race, and fantastic color change in the Victorian novel / Jessica Durgan.
Author
Durgan, Jessica, author.
ISBN
9780367138943 (hardcover)
0367138948 (hardcover)
9780429029073 (electronic book)
0367138948 (hardcover)
9780429029073 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Language
English
Description
148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR878.R34 D87 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.809
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Among the Victorians and modernists ; 12.
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Table of Contents
Purple: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Blue: Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch
Red: Thomas Hardy's The return of the native
Yellow: Arthur Conan Doyle's "The yellow face" and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden.
Blue: Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch
Red: Thomas Hardy's The return of the native
Yellow: Arthur Conan Doyle's "The yellow face" and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden.