Title Art, race, and fantastic color change in the Victorian novel / Jessica Durgan

Edition 1st Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Among the Victorians and Modernists Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Purple: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre; 2 Blue: Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch; 3 Red: Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native; 4 Yellow: Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Yellow Face" and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden; Conclusion; Index Summary As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were also trained as artists dream up fantastically colored characters for their fiction. These strange and eccentric characters include the purple madwoman Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), the blue gentleman Oscar Dubourg from Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch (1872), the red peddler Diggory Venn in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878), and the little yellow girls of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Yellow Face" (1893) and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden (1911) While color has been historically viewed as suspicious and seductive in Western culture, the Victorian period constitutes a significant moment in the history of color: the rapid development of new color technologies and the upheavals of the first avant-garde art movements result in an increase in coloring's prestige in the art academies. At the same time, race science appropriates color, using it as a criterion for classification in the establishment of global racial hierarchies. These artist-authors draw on color's traditional association with constructions of otherness to consider questions of identity and difference through the imaginative possibilities of color Notes Entry CIP data; resource not viewed Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Symbolism of colors in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Other (Philosophy) in literature. Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature. Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature English fiction Literature and society Other (Philosophy) in literature Symbolism of colors in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429639593 0429639597 9780429642760 0429642768 9780429636424 0429636423 9780429029073 0429029071

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