How Long to Read Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 32 minutes to read Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel by Jessica Durgan

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Description

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.

How long is Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel?

Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel by Jessica Durgan is 148 pages long, and a total of 38,184 words.

This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 28 minutes to read Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel?

Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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