TY - GEN
T1 - The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century
AU - Shapira, Y.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The fleshing-out of physical environment has the power to estrange the familiar, to turn the homely into the unheimlich (Radcliffe), but it can also familiarize that which is historically distant and therefore strange (Scott). [...] by the late 1800s and early 1900s, description - to use the metaphor that Wall borrows from Tom Jones - has been transformed from a "foundling" of dubious standing, "a sort of embarrassing bundle on the literary doorstep" (40), into a gentrified "heir" and can go on to pursue its even more illustrious future in the red rooms of Victorian fiction.
AB - The fleshing-out of physical environment has the power to estrange the familiar, to turn the homely into the unheimlich (Radcliffe), but it can also familiarize that which is historically distant and therefore strange (Scott). [...] by the late 1800s and early 1900s, description - to use the metaphor that Wall borrows from Tom Jones - has been transformed from a "foundling" of dubious standing, "a sort of embarrassing bundle on the literary doorstep" (40), into a gentrified "heir" and can go on to pursue its even more illustrious future in the red rooms of Victorian fiction.
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M3 - Book/Arts/Article review
VL - 7
SP - 352
EP - 356
JO - Partial Answers: journal of literature and the history of ideas
JF - Partial Answers: journal of literature and the history of ideas
ER -