Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778–1814

Women and Belonging

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, this study examines how French and British women writers working at a transformative time for European literature connected vibrantly to objects as diverse as statues, monuments, diamonds, and hats. In such connections, they manifested their own (often forbidden) embodiment and asserted their élan vital. Interweaving texts by Edgeworth, Staël, Bernardin, Wordsworth, Smith, and Burney, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson posits the concept of belonging with, a generative, embodied experience of the nonhuman that foregrounds the interdependence among things, women, social systems, and justice. Exploring the benefits such embodied experiences offer, this book uncovers an ethical materialism in literature and illuminates how women characters who draw on things can secure rights that laws neither stipulate nor safeguard. In doing so, they-and their texts-transcend dualistic thinking to create positive ecological, personal, and political outcomes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-02
Mått:160 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009463980

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is the author of Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions (2005), co-editor of Recognizing the Romantic Novel (2008), associate editor of the Cornell Wordsworth's Last Poems: 1821–1850 (1999), and author of a wide variety of articles and chapters on Romantic-era topics and writers.

Recensioner i media

'How do you say “we're all kind of the same” without lapsing into the white supremacy and patriarchy – and speciesism – that contaminated how that was said in the Enlightenment? This is, to put it mildly, an important question right now. And this book does a wonderful, deep-tissue scholarship version of addressing that question. It's beautifully written, international in scope and packed with insight, and its apparatus is scintillating and kaleidoscopic like a titanic tin of Quality Street. Heydt-Stevenson shows us that good work in the humanities can change the direction of thinking, not just about novels and poems, but in 'philosophy', 'culture' and even science.' Timothy Morton, author of Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: the 'delectable valleys' of things; 1. Moving together: restoring imperfection in the Venus de' Medici and lady Delacour; 2. A resuscitating thing theory: gender and embodied cosmopolitanism in Corinne ou l'Italie's monuments; 3. Listening to the radiant voices of others: Diamonds and Jewels in Les bijoux indiscrets and Belinda; 4. Recycling and re-embodying, twining and untwining: Paul et Virginie and its after-things; 5. Recognizing the right to protection: the scandal and sanctuary of hats in Evelina, the Wanderer, and Desmond; 6. Conclusion: living in a material World; Select bibliography; Index.