How Long to Read The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel by Stephen Hancock

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This study follows the aesthetic of the sublime from Burke and Kant, through Wordsworth and the Shelleys, into Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. Exploring the continuities between the romantic and Victorian "periods" that have so often been rather read as differences, the book demonstrates that the sublime mode enables the transition from a paradigm of overwhelming power exemplified by the body of the king to the pervasive power of surveillance utilized by the rising middle classes. While the domestic woman connected with the rise of the middle class is normally seen as beautiful, the book contends that the moral authority given to this icon of depth and interiority is actually sublime. The binary of the beautiful and the sublime seeks to contain the sublimity of womanhood by insisting on sublimity's masculine character. This is the book's most important claim: rather than exemplifying masculine strength, the sublime marks the transition to a system of power gendered as feminine and yet masks that transition because it fears the power it ostensibly accords to the feminine. This aesthetic is both an inheritance the Victorians receive from their romantic predecessors, and, more importantly, a broad historical phenomenon that questions the artificial boundaries between romantic and Victorian.

How long is The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel?

The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel by Stephen Hancock is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel?

The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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