Rereading the Nineteenth Century: Studies in the Old by Igor Webb (auth.)

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Another view tries to fathom what Williams calls structure of feeling or incorporates the reading of the novel into a reconstruction of the structure of feeling. Now the reader looks farther afield, sometimes to surprising or unexpected places, asserting homologous relations among discourses. I am not sure what notion of a reader this approach may assume, but it is not fully entailed by Iser’s implied reader. In Williams’s analysis, for example, the context enlarges and the writing shrinks, suggesting an authoritativeness or definitiveness alien to Iser’s concept of the reader.

V) 38 ● Rereading the Nineteenth Century This account—in its overall analysis, its diction, its emotion, its assumed values—derives from the Condition of England debate, but recounts its picture of the past as a present-meaning civilizational portent. Carlyle, in launching the debate, cast it as being about civilization, that is, about a whole way of life. The triumph of the machine, in this view, introduced the dreadful hegemony of the mechanical over the natural, displacing an order aligned with the seasons and the capacities of the human body (the hand) with the cold, impersonal, nonhuman chaos of urban drift.

Gaskell” (97; Williams’s italics). Williams’s knowledge of the historical record (the basis for his thinking that the murder of a millowner is not representative) drives him to two different judgments; in both cases these judgments were arrived at because his historical knowledge confirms, or is confirmed by, his reading experience. Williams experiences the early chapters of the novel, for example, as an unusually scrupulous effort to depict working-class life in its own terms. Among the details he cites to illustrate this reading are “the carefully annotated reproduction of dialect, the carefully included details of food prices,” and other, similar factual details (94).

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