Bazaar Literature

Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction

Leslee Thorne-Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286688-2 (ISBN)

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Charity bazaars were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars--which shaped the social, political, and literary movements of its time.

Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars. Bazaars were ubiquitous during the nineteenth century, part of the vibrant and massive private sector response to a rapidly industrializing society. Typically organized and run by women, charity bazaars were often called "fancy fairs" since they specialized in ladies' hand-crafted "fancy" work. Indeed, they were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Yet their conventional purpose--to raise money for charity--has led to their being widely overlooked and misunderstood.

Bazaar Literature remedies these misconceptions by demonstrating how the literature written in conjunction with bazaars shaped the social, political, and literary movements of its time. This study draws upon a wide variety of texts printed to be sold at bazaars, including literature by Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Martineau, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, alongside fictional depictions of fancy fairs by Charlotte Yonge, George Eliot, Frances Trollope, and Anthony Trollope. The book revises our understanding of the larger literary market in social reform fiction, revealing a parodic, self-critical strain that is paradoxically braided with strident political activism and its realist sensibilities.

Leslee Thorne-Murphy is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where she teaches British literature. In addition, she currently serves as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities. She co-edited The Discourse of Philanthropy in the Anglo-American Tradition, 1850-1920 with Frank Christianson, and she co-edits The Victorian Short Fiction Project with her students.

Introduction
Section 1
Bazaar Discourse
1: "A Booth in Vanity Fair": Charity Bazaars and the Methods of Fiction
2: Sites of Civil Society: The Bazaar Woman in a Mimic Market
Section 2
Literature at the Bazaar
3: Fair Value: The 1845 Anti-Corn Law League Bazaar and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island
4: "In My Broken Heart's Disdain": Sentimental Disengagement and Religious Parody in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"
Section 3
Fictional Bazaars
5: Bazaar Authorship: Fiction and Philanthropy in Charlotte M. Yonge's The Daisy Chain and The Three Brides
6: Myth and Revelation: Maggie as Bazaar Woman in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss
7: Un)Truthful Narration: Flirtation and Predation in Frances Trollope's The Vicar of Wrexhill and Anthony Trollope's Miss Mackenzie
Conclusion
Fancy Fair or Nonesuch Bazaar?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 240 mm
Gewicht	624 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-286688-5 / 0192866885
ISBN-13	978-0-19-286688-2 / 9780192866882
Zustand	Neuware