{"product_id":"my-victorians-robert-clark-9781609386672","title":"My Victorians: Lost in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003ci\u003eMy Victorians \u003c\/i\u003eis a hybrid in both form and content, part memoir\/extended lyric essay but also a work of biography, photography, and cultural, literary, and art history. This is a travelogue of writer Robert Clark's attempt to work through a sudden and inexplicable five-year-long obsession focused on Victorian novelists, artists, architecture, and critics. He wends his way through England and Scotland, meticulously tracking down the haunts of Charles Dickens, George Gissing, John Millais, the Bloomsbury Group, and others, and documenting everything in ghostly photographs as he goes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Clark delves deeper into the Victorian world, he wonders: What can its artists offer a twenty-first century writer by way of insight into his own life and work? His obsession with Victoriana bleeds into all aspects of his life, even the seemingly incongruous world of online dating. \u003ci\u003eMy Victorians \u003c\/i\u003eis in the spirit of Geoff Dyer's \u003ci\u003eOut of Sheer Rage \u003c\/i\u003eand Rebecca Mead's \u003ci\u003eMy Life in Middlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e. This book considers what happens when heartbreak, eros, faith, and doubt drive us to take refuge in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609386671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609386672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2019","brand":"Robert Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989376794879,"sku":"9781609386672","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a673c0c7-d9e8-449c-ae7c-1b69e80c3ead.jpg?v=1683299142","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-victorians-robert-clark-9781609386672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}