Comparative Practices – Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain′s Long Eighteenth Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation of bodies, artefacts, discourses, and ideas, and aims to investigate how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-28
Mått:147 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt:666 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Transcript Verlag
ISBN:9783837657999

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (PD Dr. phil.), geb. Böhm, lehrt Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg sowie an der Universität Konstanz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen neben der Erforschung der Interdependenzen religiöser und kultureller Diskurse insbesondere im Bereich der Erzählliteratur der Gegenwart und des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.

Recensioner i media

»Designed and written as clearly as it is, this book will also find its way into teachingthe 18th century. «

Innehållsförteckning

Comparative Practices in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century; The Creation of the English Nation: Alfred the Great as Role Model; The Circulating Library, the Novel, and Implicit Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century England: Assembling 'Middle-Class' Literariness; Comparing Conduct: English Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century and the Formation of Ideals of Social Behaviour; The Complexity of Narrative Comparisons in Wollstonecraft's Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman and Lennox's The Female Quixote; "'tis by Comparison we can Judge and Chuse [sic!]": Incomparable Oroonoko; Articulating Differences: Practices of Comparing in British Travel Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century; Oceans of Non-Relation: Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More; Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century Grammars of English; Authors and Editors.