Afbrydelsens kronotopi i britisk litteratur, 1840-1870
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Afbrydelsens kronotopi i britisk litteratur, 1840-1870. / Damkjær, Maria.
I: K & K, Bind 45, Nr. 123, 29.08.2017, s. 173-90.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Afbrydelsens kronotopi i britisk litteratur, 1840-1870
AU - Damkjær, Maria
PY - 2017/8/29
Y1 - 2017/8/29
N2 - Bakhtin’s chronotope is not only a meeting between time and space, but often also a meeting between a number of contrasting temporalities. This article discusses the topos of domestic interruption, which lays bare the temporal politics of the nineteenth-century middle-class home. It was a commonplace in the nineteenth century that women’s time in the home was interruptible and porous. When Victorian writers described everyday interruptions, they showed the contrast between plot time and an underlying marginalised domestic time. In an analysis of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters (1864-1866), combined with a new historicist reading of Victorian advice literature, this article argues that narrative marginalisation was paradoxically a viable strategy for showing an otherwise invisible temporality. In the background, peeping out whenever the plot interrupts, is an enduring and ongoing time, mediated by unnamed and underrepresented servants, that gives the middle-class home temporal depth and realism.
AB - Bakhtin’s chronotope is not only a meeting between time and space, but often also a meeting between a number of contrasting temporalities. This article discusses the topos of domestic interruption, which lays bare the temporal politics of the nineteenth-century middle-class home. It was a commonplace in the nineteenth century that women’s time in the home was interruptible and porous. When Victorian writers described everyday interruptions, they showed the contrast between plot time and an underlying marginalised domestic time. In an analysis of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters (1864-1866), combined with a new historicist reading of Victorian advice literature, this article argues that narrative marginalisation was paradoxically a viable strategy for showing an otherwise invisible temporality. In the background, peeping out whenever the plot interrupts, is an enduring and ongoing time, mediated by unnamed and underrepresented servants, that gives the middle-class home temporal depth and realism.
KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet
KW - british literature
KW - Elizabeth Gaskell
KW - Popular magazines
KW - domesticity
KW - time
KW - chronotope
KW - M. M. Bakhtin
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 45
SP - 173
EP - 190
JO - K & K
JF - K & K
SN - 0905-6998
IS - 123
ER -
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