{"product_id":"the-ideas-in-things-elaine-freedgood-9780226261638","title":"The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. \u003ci\u003eThe Ideas in Things\u003c\/i\u003e explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuilding her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels--the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Brontë's \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, the calico curtains in Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003ci\u003eMary Barton\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"Negro head\" tobacco in Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations--\u003c\/i\u003eFreedgood argues that these things are connected to histories that the novels barely acknowledge, generating darker meanings outside the novels' symbolic systems. A valuable contribution to the new field of object studies in the humanities, \u003ci\u003eThe Ideas in Things\u003c\/i\u003e pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elaine Freedgood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226261638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226261638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Elaine Freedgood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056653332735,"sku":"9780226261638","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc6ba0e3-b0b0-45cc-adf1-feea6bac5256.jpg?v=1685042518","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ideas-in-things-elaine-freedgood-9780226261638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}