Object Lessons: The Victorians and the Material Text
The most notorious object lesson in Victorian literature appears at the beginning of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854). Schoolteacher Thomas Gradgrind is delivering a lesson: ‘Girl number twenty’, he demands of Sissy Jupe, ‘give me your definition of a horse’. Sissy, whose father works with circu...
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2017
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | The most notorious object lesson in Victorian literature appears at the beginning of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854). Schoolteacher Thomas Gradgrind is delivering a lesson: ‘Girl number twenty’, he demands of Sissy Jupe, ‘give me your definition of a horse’. Sissy, whose father works with circus horses, is ‘thrown into the greatest alarm by this demand’ (4) and unable to respond. Another student, Bitzer, produces a response that satisfies Gradgrind: ‘Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth... |
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