UID:
almahu_9949383508702882
Format:
1 online resource (114 pages) :
,
illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780367135690
,
0367135698
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9781000012217
,
1000012212
,
9781000005394
,
1000005399
,
9781000018738
,
1000018733
Content:
"This study explores the 'ecology of knowledge' of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and two specific case studies on the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell and the campaigns for educational extension which emerged out of the city. It argues that crucial to the Victorians' approaches was the 'visiting mode' as particular discursive formation, including its institutional foundations, its characteristic modes and assumptions, and the texts which exemplify it. Recognition of the importance of the visiting mode, it is argued, offers a fundamental challenge to established Foucauldian interpretations of nineteenth century society and culture, and provides an important corrective to recent scholarship of nineteenth century technologies of knowing"--
Note:
Introduction: The "statistical moment" and its limits -- The visiting mode -- The cartographic imaginary -- Gaskell's Manchester: the visiting mode in fiction -- The case of educational reform.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ISBN 9780367135683
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780367135690
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367135690
