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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

1 421 kr

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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James, as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of anesthesia.Through examining the work of nineteenth-century writers, Constantinesco argues that pain, while undeniably destructive, also generates language and identities, and demonstrates how literature participates in theorizing the problems of mind and body that undergird the deep chasms of selfhood, sociality, gender, and race of a formative period in American history. Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States considers first Emerson's philosophy of compensation, which promises to convert pain into gain. It also explores the limitations of this model, showing how Jacobs contests the division of body and mind that underwrites it and how Dickinson challenges its alleged universalism by foregrounding the unshareability of pain as a paradoxical measure of togetherness. It then investigates the concurrent economies of affects in which pain was implicated during and after the Civil War and argues, through the example of James and Phelps, for queer sociality as a response to the heteronormative violence of sentimentalism. The last chapter on Alice James extends the critique of sentimental sympathy while returning to the book's premise that pain is generative and the site of thought. By linking literary formalism with individual and social formation, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States eventually claims close reading as a method to recover the theoretical work of literature.

Romanticism and Philosophy

Thinking with Literature

AvSophie Laniel-Musitelli,Thomas Constantinesco

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

740 kr

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This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few studies combine these coordinates and consider the philosophical significance of distinctly literary questions in British and American Romantic writings. The essays in this book are concerned with literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating the many ways in which Romantic literature across the Atlantic engages with European thought, from 18th- and 19th-century philosophy to contemporary theory. The contributors read Romantic texts both as critical responses to the major debates that have shaped the history of philosophy, and as thought experiments in their own right. This volume thus examines anew the poetic philosophy of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, and Clare, also extending beyond poetry to consider other literary genres as philosophically significant, such as Jane Austen’s novels, De Quincey’s autofiction, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, or Emerson’s essays. Grounded in complementary theoretical backgrounds and reading practices, the various contributions draw on an impressive array of writers and thinkers and challenge our understanding not only of Romanticism, but also of what we have come to think of as "literature" and "philosophy."

Romanticism and Philosophy

Thinking with Literature

AvSophie Laniel-Musitelli,Thomas Constantinesco

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

2 712 kr

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This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few studies combine these coordinates and consider the philosophical significance of distinctly literary questions in British and American Romantic writings. The essays in this book are concerned with literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating the many ways in which Romantic literature across the Atlantic engages with European thought, from 18th- and 19th-century philosophy to contemporary theory. The contributors read Romantic texts both as critical responses to the major debates that have shaped the history of philosophy, and as thought experiments in their own right. This volume thus examines anew the poetic philosophy of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley and Clare, also extending beyond poetry to consider other literary genres as philosophically significant, such as Jane Austen’s novels, De Quincey’s autofiction, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, or Emerson’s essays. Grounded in complementary theoretical backgrounds and reading practices, the various contributions draw on an impressive array of writers and thinkers and challenge our understanding not only of Romanticism, but also of what we have come to think of as "literature" and "philosophy."

Romanticism and Philosophy

Thinking with Literature

AvSophie Laniel-Musitelli,Thomas Constantinesco

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

858 kr

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This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few studies combine these coordinates and consider the philosophical significance of distinctly literary questions in British and American Romantic writings. The essays in this book are concerned with literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating the many ways in which Romantic literature across the Atlantic engages with European thought, from 18th- and 19th-century philosophy to contemporary theory. The contributors read Romantic texts both as critical responses to the major debates that have shaped the history of philosophy, and as thought experiments in their own right. This volume thus examines anew the poetic philosophy of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley and Clare, also extending beyond poetry to consider other literary genres as philosophically significant, such as Jane Austen’s novels, De Quincey’s autofiction, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, or Emerson’s essays. Grounded in complementary theoretical backgrounds and reading practices, the various contributions draw on an impressive array of writers and thinkers and challenge our understanding not only of Romanticism, but also of what we have come to think of as "literature" and "philosophy."

Romanticism and Philosophy

Thinking with Literature

AvSophie Laniel-Musitelli,Thomas Constantinesco

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2015

858 kr

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This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy. The entanglement of Romantic literature with philosophy is increasingly recognized, just as Romanticism is increasingly viewed as European and Transatlantic, yet few studies combine these coordinates and consider the philosophical significance of distinctly literary questions in British and American Romantic writings. The essays in this book are concerned with literary writing as a form of thinking, investigating the many ways in which Romantic literature across the Atlantic engages with European thought, from 18th- and 19th-century philosophy to contemporary theory. The contributors read Romantic texts both as critical responses to the major debates that have shaped the history of philosophy, and as thought experiments in their own right. This volume thus examines anew the poetic philosophy of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley and Clare, also extending beyond poetry to consider other literary genres as philosophically significant, such as Jane Austen’s novels, De Quincey’s autofiction, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, or Emerson’s essays. Grounded in complementary theoretical backgrounds and reading practices, the various contributions draw on an impressive array of writers and thinkers and challenge our understanding not only of Romanticism, but also of what we have come to think of as "literature" and "philosophy."

Littérature et politique en Nouvelle Angleterre

AvAntoine Traisnel,Thomas Constantinesco

E-bok

Franska, 2011

184 kr

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Partant de l’idée que la Nouvelle-Angleterre désigne moins une région ou un territoire aux frontières clairement délimitées qu’elle ne figure un projet politique aux formes changeantes, cet ouvrage analyse le rôle prédominant qu’y a joué la littérature, non seulement en tant que production intellectuelle visant à s’émanciper du modèle culturel européen, mais aussi « en tant que littérature ». Du récit de captivité de Mary Rowlandson à Washington Irving, de Ralph Waldo Emerson à Henry David Thoreau, de Nathaniel Hawthorne à Susan Howe en passant par Emily Dickinson ou Henry James : qu’ils examinent les modalités de l’intrication du singulier et de la communauté ou qu’ils interrogent le rôle ambigu que jouent les lettres dans la constitution d’un espace commun, tous les articles s’accordent sur le fait que la littérature induit un rapport inédit au monde. Couvrant un intervalle de près de quatre siècles, ils montrent, chacun à sa manière, que la littérature de Nouvelle-Angleterre est toujours de nature politique, mais aussi, peut-être, que la politique est sans cesse travaillée par des pratiques de langage que la littérature invite à repenser.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - L'Amérique à l'essai

AvThomas Constantinesco

E-bok

Franska, 2012

267 kr

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Premier philosophe américain, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) s’est aussi rêvé poète, chantre d’une Amérique qui, au XIXesiècle, tarde encore à s’inventer en littérature. L’écrivain de génie dont il annonce l’avènement a le pouvoir de percevoir dans la nature la divinité de l’homme. Représentatif de tous, lui seul peut fonder la communauté et permettre l’accomplissement de sa destinée démocratique. Mais s’il prétend déceler dans la nature les lois collectives, c’est surtout son propre reflet qu’il contemple, car le monde est d’abord le double de l’esprit. Nature et nation deviennent alors ses œuvres : parlant à leur place plutôt qu’en leur nom, il leur impose les caprices de sa volonté et menace de réduire la démocratie promise à l’empire d’un seul.Rejouée de texte en texte, la tension entre individu et société donne à l’œuvre d’Emerson sa scansion singulière. De Nature aux Essais, à Representative Men et The Conduct of Life, Thomas Constantinesco suit le cheminement d’une pensée au gré des contradictions de l’écriture, toujours «en transition», et s’intéresse aux rapports complices et conflictuels qu’en Amérique la littérature entretient avec la politique. Préface de Mathieu Duplay

Ralph Waldo Emerson - L'Amérique à l'essai

AvThomas Constantinesco

E-bok

PDF, Franska, 2012

267 kr

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Premier philosophe américain, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) s’est aussi rêvé poète, chantre d’une Amérique qui, au XIXesiècle, tarde encore à s’inventer en littérature. L’écrivain de génie dont il annonce l’avènement a le pouvoir de percevoir dans la nature la divinité de l’homme. Représentatif de tous, lui seul peut fonder la communauté et permettre l’accomplissement de sa destinée démocratique. Mais s’il prétend déceler dans la nature les lois collectives, c’est surtout son propre reflet qu’il contemple, car le monde est d’abord le double de l’esprit. Nature et nation deviennent alors ses œuvres : parlant à leur place plutôt qu’en leur nom, il leur impose les caprices de sa volonté et menace de réduire la démocratie promise à l’empire d’un seul.Rejouée de texte en texte, la tension entre individu et société donne à l’œuvre d’Emerson sa scansion singulière. De Nature aux Essais, à Representative Men et The Conduct of Life, Thomas Constantinesco suit le cheminement d’une pensée au gré des contradictions de l’écriture, toujours «en transition», et s’intéresse aux rapports complices et conflictuels qu’en Amérique la littérature entretient avec la politique. Préface de Mathieu Duplay

Littérature et politique en Nouvelle Angleterre

AvAntoine Traisnel,Thomas Constantinesco

E-bok

PDF, Franska, 2011

203 kr

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Partant de l’idée que la Nouvelle-Angleterre désigne moins une région ou un territoire aux frontières clairement délimitées qu’elle ne figure un projet politique aux formes changeantes, cet ouvrage analyse le rôle prédominant qu’y a joué la littérature, non seulement en tant que production intellectuelle visant à s’émanciper du modèle culturel européen, mais aussi « en tant que littérature ». Du récit de captivité de Mary Rowlandson à Washington Irving, de Ralph Waldo Emerson à Henry David Thoreau, de Nathaniel Hawthorne à Susan Howe en passant par Emily Dickinson ou Henry James : qu’ils examinent les modalités de l’intrication du singulier et de la communauté ou qu’ils interrogent le rôle ambigu que jouent les lettres dans la constitution d’un espace commun, tous les articles s’accordent sur le fait que la littérature induit un rapport inédit au monde. Couvrant un intervalle de près de quatre siècles, ils montrent, chacun à sa manière, que la littérature de Nouvelle-Angleterre est toujours de nature politique, mais aussi, peut-être, que la politique est sans cesse travaillée par des pratiques de langage que la littérature invite à repenser.

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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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Romanticism and Philosophy

Romanticism and Philosophy

Romanticism and Philosophy

Littérature et politique en Nouvelle Angleterre

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