"The Ideas in Things" 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 reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels - Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations - Freedgood 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 field of object studies, "The Ideas in Things" pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish.
發表於2024-09-06
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圖書標籤: 維多利亞 Non-fiction
讀前言第二遍之後,決定改五星。
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評分有些本末倒置,讓維多利亞小說成瞭19世紀英國物質文化史的注腳。同樣也有些循環論證,作者看瞭一些維多利亞物質文化史的書,然後用裏麵提及的物與小說裏的物相匹配,去論證小說裏同樣的物體現瞭其時怎樣的物質文化。如果要瞭解那段時期的物質文化概況,直接去讀維多利亞物質文化史的書就好瞭呀,還讀這些維多利亞小說乾啥呢?所以作者論證的這些小說“證史”的特異性在哪裏呢?此外,Freegood提倡說,要恢復虛構文本中事物的物質屬性,就要盡力避免象徵的誘惑,避免隱喻式的解讀;但是,就像Bill Brown說的,我們思考蘊含於事物中的觀念時,真的可以避免不被我們關於事物的觀念(也即我們對事物的隱喻性象徵性解讀)所影響嗎?“Probably not.”
評分讀前言第二遍之後,決定改五星。
評分讀前言第二遍之後,決定改五星。
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