1st Edition
Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel
By Jessica Durgan
Copyright 2019
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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Biography
Jessica Durgan is Associate Professor of English at Bemidji State University, where she teaches courses in British literature and film studies. Her work has previously appeared in journals such as Victorian Literature and Culture and Persuasions Online, as well as in the book collections Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture and The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescence Literature and Culture.
