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　　Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social

history, this book traces the lines of tension shot through

Victorian culture by the fear that the social world was being

reduced to a display window behind which people, their actions and

their convictions were exhibited for the economic appetites of

others. Affecting the most basic elements of Victorian life - the

vagaries of desire, the rationalisation of social life, the

gendering of subjectivity, the power of nostalgia, the fear of

mortality, the cyclical routines of the household - the ambivalence

generated by commodity culture organizes the thematic concerns of

these novels and the society they represent. Taking the commodity

as their point of departure, chapters on Thackeray, Gaskell,

Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and the Great Exhibition of 1851 suggest

that Victorian novels provide us with graphic and enduring images

of the power of commodities to affect the varied activities and

beliefs of individual and social experience.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Longing for sleeve buttons

3. Spaces of exchange: interpreting the Great Exhibition of 

1851

4. The fragments and small opportunities of Cranford

5. Rearranging the furniture of Our Mutual Friend

6. Owning up:  possessive individualism in Trollope's

Autobiography and The Eustace Diamonds

7. Middlemarch and the solicitude of material 

culture

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

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书籍介绍

Drawing on recent work in critical theory, feminism, and social history, this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England, using the image of the "display window". Novels Behind Glass analyzes the work of Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope, and Gaskell, to demonstrate that the Victorian novel provides us with graphic and enduring images of the power of commodities to affect our beliefs about gender, community, and individual identity. It will be of interest to students of Victorian literature and history as well as social and cultural theory.