Annoying the Victorians
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Annoying the Victorians
Routledge, 1995
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780415907286
Description
"Annoying the Victorians" directly addresses the ideology of current critical discourse. The author deploys a technique of "bad criticsm", a parody of the rules of good critics, in the quest to challenge the assumptions which guide what is considered good scholarly criticism. Looking at a series of Victorian texts, both poetry and novels, "Annoying the Victorians" develops an absurdist criticism, which mocks respect for "the text", the employment of evidence, the appeal to reason, the value of coherence, the solemn tone and importance of everything we do or say. Kincaid presents us with a comic exposure of the price paid for ritual obedience to what is demanded of critics and criticism.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415907293
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What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 The Part Before The First Part
- Part 1 Dickensian Jugglers
- Chapter 1a Fattening Up on Pickwick
- Chapter 2 Little NellaEURO"She Dead
- Chapter 3 Viewing and Blurring with Dickens
- Chapter 4 All the Wickedness in the World Is Print Dickens and Subversive Interpretation
- Chapter 5 Performance, Roles, the Self, and Our Own Charles Dickens
- Part 2 Interlude I
- Chapter 7 Who Is Relieved By the Idea of Comic Relief?
- Part 3 Poets And Propriety
- Chapter 6 Forgetting to Remember Tennyson's Happy Losses
- Chapter 7a Tennyson, Hallam's Corpse, Milton's Murder, and Poetic Exhibitionism, Buck McMullen
- Chapter 8 The Poem Says Meredith's Modern Love
- Chapter 9 The Canonical Poetry of The Pearl
- Part 4 Interlude II
- Chapter 12 H. Rider Haggard's The Return of 'She'
- Part 5 Fictional Strippers
- Chapter 10 Words Cannot Express Frankenstein's Tripping on the Tongue
- Chapter 11 Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel
- Chapter 12a The Power of Barchester Towers
- Chapter 13 Girl-Watching, Child-Beating, and Other Exercises for Readers of Jude the Obscure
- Chapter 17 Afterword
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