{"product_id":"fashionable-fictions-and-the-currency-of-the-nineteenth-century-british-novel-paperback-softback-9781009296588","title":"Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009296588","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLauren Gillingham (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009296588, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… offers readers a trip through familiar terrain - the development of the nineteenth-century novel - guided by Gillingham's fresh and finely-honed argument about the temporality of fashion and its influence on the genre.' Cheryl A. Wilson, Victorian Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRevealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion's idiom of currency and obsolescence to link narrative form to a heightened sense of the present and the visibility of public life. It contends that novelists steeped their fiction in date-stamped matters of dress, manners, and media sensations to articulate a sense of history as unfolding not in epochal change, but in transient issues and interests capturing the public's imagination. Reading fiction by Mary Shelley, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others, Fashionable Fictions tells the story of a nineteenth-century genre commitment to contemporaneity that restyles the novel itself.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Fashion and Its Vicissitudes: Contingency, Temporality, Narrative\u003cbr\u003e I. The Silver-Fork Novel and the Transient World: 1. 'All this phantasmagoria': Landon, Shelley, and the Texture of Contemporary Life\u003cbr\u003e 2. Picaresque Movements: Pelham, Cecil, and the Rejection of Bildung\u003cbr\u003e II: Demotic Celebrities: 3. Spectacular Objects: Criminal Celebrity and the Newgate School\u003cbr\u003e 4. After Criminality: Dickens and the Celebrity of Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e III. Hypercurrency and the Sensation Novel: 5. Affective Distance and the Temporality of Sensation Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Fiction and Fashion Now.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Media studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Media studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Media%20studies%20%5BJFD%5D%22\"\u003eJFD\u003c\/a\u003e], Cultural studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Cultural studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Cultural%20studies%20%5BJFC%5D%22\"\u003eJFC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e], Fashion design \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Fashion design \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Fashion%20design%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BAKTA%5D%22\"\u003eAKTA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509152903448,"sku":"9781009296588","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009296588i.jpg?v=1786494479","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fashionable-fictions-and-the-currency-of-the-nineteenth-century-british-novel-paperback-softback-9781009296588","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}