Key Critical Texts Flashcards
Kate Flint in ‘The Victorians and the Visual Imagination’ (2000)
Flint advances provocative claim that V’s were as much interested in invisibility as the vaunted visibility for which that “scopic” culture is well known
Joseph W Childers in ‘Industrial Culture and the Victorian Novel’
‘such fundamentals as space and time were challenged. Not only were people thinking differently, they were existing differently’
Lewis Mumford in ‘Technics and Civilization’
1934, makes distinction between ‘organic time’ and mechanical time
Mikhail Bakhtin
In the Dialogic Imagination 1981
Rosemary Jackson on the Gothic
Gothic fantasy ‘characteristically attempts to compensate for lack resulting from cultural constraints: it is a literature of desire, which seeks that which is experienced as absence and loss’
