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The Material Turn in Victorian Studies
Author(s) -
Pykett Lyn
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00020.x
Subject(s) - commodification , consumerism , scholarship , trace (psycholinguistics) , semiotics , commodity , cultural turn , cultural studies , aesthetics , sociology , victorian era , media studies , literature , history , art , social science , anthropology , political science , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , law , business , economics , economy , finance
The Victorians were fascinated with objects and things – but recent scholarship has proved equally fascinated with this Victorian obsession. Examining the rise of the ‘commodity’ in Victorian culture, this article goes on to trace how consumerism, semiotics and the rise of cultural studies have provided new approaches to Victorian culture and commodification.