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Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century

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Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century

Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century by Regenia Gagnier
English | EPUB (True) | 2018 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 3319984187 | 1.3 MB

This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact rather than national boundaries, the author draws attention to the global scope of literatures and geopolitical commodities as actants in world affairs, as in processes of liberalization, democratization, and trade, but also to the distinctiveness of each local environment at its moments of transculturation. Based in extensive experience in collaborative, multilingual, interdisciplinary networks, the book synthesizes existing theoretical scholarship, provides original case studies of world-historical Victorian and modern writers, and articulates a new interdisciplinary methodology for literary studies in a global context. It will be of interest to Victorianists, modernists, comparatists, political theorists, translators, and scholars of world literatures, world ecology, and globalization.

Romantics and the Era of Early Flight

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Romantics and the Era of Early Flight

Romantics and the Era of Early Flight by John Gilroy
English | EPUB (True) | 2022 | 268 Pages | ISBN : 3031187717 | 26 MB

This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references to Romantic texts, using ballooning lore to illuminate a range of Romantic writings. The balloonists are seen as not just supplying these writers with a new code of metaphors, but as colleagues engaged in similarly imaginative enterprises. The book uncovers an ‘aerial imagination’ shared by a large number of writers in the Romantic period that has its origins in the balloon adventures of the 1780s and following two decades. It will appeal to scholars and students of Romantic cultural history, as well as those interested in Romantic poetry and the history of early aeronautics.

Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895

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Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895

Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895 by Ben Moore
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 107 Pages | ISBN : 3031266390 | 2.4 MB

This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of the realist novel in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through three case studies, it argues for ‘human tissue’ as a conceptual tool for reading that brings together biology, literature and questions of layering. This new approach is shown to be especially salient to the Victorian period, when the application of ‘tissue’ to biology first emerges. The book is distinctive in bringing together theoretical concerns around realism and the Anthropocene – two major topics in literary criticism – and presenting a new methodology to approach this conjunction, demonstrated through original readings of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, and Emile Zola and two English-language writers he influenced (George Moore and Vernon Lee).

Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out

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Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out

Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out by Ruth Heholt, Melissa Edmundson
English | EPUB (True) | 2020 | 309 Pages | ISBN : 3030345394 | 4.3 MB

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory.

Historical Etiquette: Etiquette Books in Nineteenth-Century Western Cultures

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Historical Etiquette: Etiquette Books in Nineteenth-Century Western Cultures

Historical Etiquette: Etiquette Books in Nineteenth-Century Western Cultures by Annick Paternoster
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 416 Pages | ISBN : 3031075773 | 28.1 MB

This book is a groundbreaking study of etiquette in the nineteenth century when the success of etiquette books reached unprecedented heights in Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. It positions etiquette as a fully-fledged theoretical concept within the fields of politeness studies and historical pragmatics. After tracing the origin of etiquette back to Spanish court protocol, the analysis takes a novel approach to key aspects of etiquette: its highly coercive and intricate scripts; the liminal rituals of social gatekeeping; the fear for blunders; the obsession with precedence. Interrogating the complex relationship between historical etiquette and adjacent notions of politeness, conduct, morality, convention, and ritual, the study prompts questions on gender stereotyping and class privilege surrounding the present-day etiquette revival.

Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake

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Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake

Modernist Circumnavigations: Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake by Kevin Riordan
English | EPUB | 2022 | 274 Pages | ISBN : 3030962407 | 22.9 MB

This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world.

H G Wells: A Literary Life (Repost)

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H G Wells: A Literary Life (Repost)

H G Wells: A Literary Life by Adam Roberts
English | PDF | 2019 | 449 Pages | ISBN : 3030264203 | 5.1 MB

This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells’ importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering a nuanced portrait of the man who coined the phrases ‘atom bomb’, ‘League of Nations’ ‘the war to end war’ and ‘time machine’, who wrote the world’s first comprehensive global history and invented the idea of the tank. In these twenty-six chapters, Roberts covers the entirety of Wells’ life and discusses every book and short story he produced, delivering a complete vision of this enduring figure.