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Jillian Heydt-Stevenson - Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778-1814, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778-1814

Women and Belonging

Av Jillian Heydt-Stevenson

758 kr

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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.
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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.

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'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

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