Anticipatory Materialisms In Literature And Philosophy 1790 1930

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Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930

Author : Jo Carruthers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030298175
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930 written by Jo Carruthers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical ‘turn’ to materiality and affect. Critical volumes that approach literature via the prism of New Materialism are in the ascendence. This collection stakes a different claim: by engaging with neglected theories of materiality in literary and philosophical works that antedate the twenty-first century ‘turn’ to New Materialism and theories of affect, the project aims to establish a dialogue between recent theoretical considerations of people-world relations in literature and that which has gone before. This project seeks to demonstrate the particular and meaningful ways in which interactions between people and the physical world were being considered in literature between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project does not propose an air of finality; indeed, it is our hope that offering provocative and challenging chapters, which approach the subject from various critical and thematic perspectives, the collection will establish a broader dialogue regarding the ways in philosophy and literature have intersected and informed each other over the course of the long nineteenth century.

Sandscapes

Author : Jo Carruthers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030447804
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Sandscapes written by Jo Carruthers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond. This book brings together creative and critical writings that explore the ways sand speaks to us of holidays and respite, but also of time and mortality, of plenitude and eternity. Drawing together writers from a range of backgrounds, the volume explores the environmental, social, personal, cultural, and political significance of sand and the seaside towns that have built up around it. The contributions take a variety of forms including fiction and nonfiction and cover topics ranging from sand dunes to sand mining, from seaside stories to shoreline architecture, from sand grains to global sand movements, from narratives of the setting up of bed and breakfasts to stories of seaside decline. Often a symbol of aridity, sand is revealed in this book to be an astonishingly fertile site for cultural meaning.

Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District

Author : Joanna E. Taylor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684483778
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District written by Joanna E. Taylor and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England’s famed Lake District—best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers—is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writing about the region from 1622-1900 with distant approaches to textual analysis. This path-breaking volume exemplifies interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how digital humanities methodologies and geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of a region whose topography has been long recognized as fundamental to the shape of the poetry and prose produced within it.

Mobilities, Literature, Culture

Author : Marian Aguiar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030270726
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Mobilities, Literature, Culture written by Marian Aguiar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision of a mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel, technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation, geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Author : Danielle Mariann Dove
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350294691
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction written by Danielle Mariann Dove and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the contemporary cultural imagination. Drawing upon a range of popular and less well-studied neo-Victorian novels published between 1990 and 2014, as well as their Victorian counterparts, 19th-century illustrative material, and extant Victorian garments, Danielle Dove explores the creative possibilities afforded by dress and fashion as gendered sites of agency and affect. Focusing on the relationship between texts and textiles, she demonstrates how dress is central to the narrativization, re-formulation, and re-fashioning of the material past in the present. In its examination of the narrative trajectories, lively vitalities, and material entanglements that accrue to, and originate from, dress in the neo-Victorian novel, this study brings a fresh approach to reading Victorian sartorial culture. For researchers and students of Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, dress history, material culture, and gender studies, this volume offers a rich resource with which to illuminate the power of fashion in fiction.

Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020

Author : Will Abberley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108126219
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020 written by Will Abberley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we speak so much of nature today when there is so little of it left? Prompted by this question, this study offers the first full-length exploration of modern British nature writing, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on non-fictional prose writing, the book supplies new readings of classic texts by Romantic, Victorian and Contemporary authors, situating these within the context of an enduringly popular genre. Nature writing is still widely considered fundamentally celebratory or escapist, yet it is also very much in tune with the conflicts of a natural world under threat. The book's five authors connect these conflicts to the triple historical crisis of the environment; of representation; and of modern dissociated sensibility. This book offers an informed critical approach to modern British nature writing for specialist readers, as well as a valuable guide for general readers concerned by an increasingly diminished natural world.

Haunting Ecologies

Author : Ursula Kluwick
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813950996
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Haunting Ecologies written by Ursula Kluwick and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people’s daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick’s Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces. Kluwick reads works by canonical writers such as Braddon, Dickens, Stoker, and George Eliot alongside sanitary reform discourse, court cases, journalistic articles, satirical cartoons, technical drawings, paintings, and maps. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on Victorian-era anxieties about water contamination as well as on how certain wet landscapes such as sewers, rivers, and marshes became associated with moral corruption and crime. Applying ideas from the field of blue humanities to nineteenth-century texts, Haunting Ecologies argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.

Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction

Author : Anna Burton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000367614
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction written by Anna Burton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century. Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel identifies the picturesque thinker William Gilpin as a significant influence in this literary and environmental tradition. Remarks on Forest Scenery (1791) is formed by Gilpin’s own observations of trees, forests, and his New Forest home specifically; but it is also the product of tree-stories collected from ‘travellers and historians’ that came before him. This study tracks the impact of this accumulating arboreal discourse upon nineteenth-century environmental writers such as John Claudius Loudon, Jacob George Strutt, William Howitt, and Mary Roberts, and its influence on varied dialogues surrounding natural history, agriculture, landscaping, deforestation, and public health. Building upon this concept of an ongoing silvicultural discussion, the monograph examines how novelists in the realist mode engage with this discourse and use their understanding of arboreal space and its cultural worth in order to transform their own fictional environments. Through their novelistic framing of single trees, clumps, forests, ancient woodlands, and man-made plantations, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy feature as authors of particular interest. Collectively, in their environmental representations, these novelists engage with a broad range of silvicultural conversation in their writing of space at the beginning, middle, and end of the nineteenth century. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and academics working in the environmental humanities, long nineteenth-century literature, nature writing and environmental literature, environmental history, ecocriticism, and literature and science scholarship.

Digital Narrative Spaces

Author : Daniel Punday
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000516024
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Digital Narrative Spaces written by Daniel Punday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a broad consensus that digital narrative is "spatial," but what this critical term means and how it is used varies greatly depending on the discipline from which it is approached. Digital Narrative Spaces brings together essays by prominent scholars in electronic literature and other forms of digital authorship to explore the relationship between story and space across these disciplines. This volume includes an introduction with Marie-Laure Ryan’s typology of space, followed by thought-provoking individual chapters which explore innovative explorations of electronic literature, locative media, literary tourism, and the mapping of real-world literary spaces. The collection closes with an essay analyzing continuities and discontinuities in theory of space across the chapters. This volume will provide an important framework for establishing a dialogue across disciplines and future scholarship in these fields.

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism

Author : Nour Dakkak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003826164
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism written by Nour Dakkak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural environments. By examining the everyday embodied experiences of characters, the book thus brings to the fore insignificant and sometimes overlooked aspects in Forster’s fiction. It also places importance on the texts’ treatment of queer intimacy as an embodied experience that can transcend sexual desire. The book acknowledges nonhuman agency as central to our understanding of queerness in Forster’s texts and studies the representation of formless matters such as dust as a way through which Forster’s ecological concerns arise by linking the fate of oppressed humans with oppressed nonhuman others.

Genetics and the Novel

Author : Paul Hamann-Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031531000
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Genetics and the Novel written by Paul Hamann-Rose and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voluptuous Philosophy

Author : Natania Meeker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823293506
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Voluptuous Philosophy written by Natania Meeker and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself--in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies--as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the emergence of an enlightened secular materialism by showing how questions of figure--how should a body be represented? What should the effects of this representation be on readers?--are tellingly and consistently located at the very heart of 18th-century debates about the nature of material substance. French materialisms of the Enlightenment are crucially invested not only in the development of a sophisticated theoretical apparatus around the notion of matter but in the production of specific relationships between readers and the "matter" of the texts that they consume. How, the book asks, did the period's fascination with a markedly immaterial and ephemeral event--the reading of works of fiction--come to coincide with what appears to be a gradual materialization of human subjects: men and women who increasingly manage to envision themselves transfigured, as the century wears on, into machines, animals, and even, in the work of the Marquis de Sade, tables and chairs? In what way did the spread of new philosophies of matter depend upon the ability of readers to perceive certain figures of speech as literally and immediately true--to imagine themselves as fully material bodies even as they found themselves most deeply compelled by disembodied literary forms? More broadly, in what sense does the act of reading literature alter and transfigure our perceptions of what is, and can be, real? Voluptuous Philosophy articulates the gradual coming into being of literature as a distinct arena of textual production with the rise of an enlightened reader who remains abstracted from the bodily symptoms that any given piece of writing may induce in him. The very definition of "the literary" as an autonomous field, this book suggests, may, ironically, be dependent upon the simultaneous construction of a material world that remains fully immune to its effects.

E. M. Forster's Material Humanism

Author : NOUR. DAKKAK
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032294469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book E. M. Forster's Material Humanism written by NOUR. DAKKAK and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through attending to the nonhuman, this book places Forster's fiction in conversation with contemporary debates in environmental humanities and queer ecology. It revisits Forster's liberal humanism from a materialist perspective

History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance

Author : Friedrich Albert Lange
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230263861
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance written by Friedrich Albert Lange and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. DARWINISM AND TELEOLOGY. When the first edition of the 'History of Materialism' appeared, Darwinism was still new; the parties were just taking up their positions, or, more strictly, the rapidly growing party of 'German Darwinians' was still in process of forming, and the reaction, which at present sees here the most threatened point in the old theory of things, was not yet properly in harness, because it had not yet properly appreciated the range of the great problem and the inward power of the new doctrine. Since then, the interest of friends and foes has been so much concentrated on this point, that not only an extensive literature has sprung up on Darwin and Darwinism, but that we may say that the Darwinian controversy is to-day what the general Materialistic controversy was formerly. Biichner is still ever finding new readers for 'Kraft und Stoff/ but we no longer hear a literary outcry of indignation when a new edition appears. Moleschott, the true author of the Materialistic movement, is almost forgotten by the great public, and even Karl Vogt is now seldom mentioned except in reference to some special question in anthropology or some isolated and immortal utterance of his drastic humour. Instead of this, every periodical takes sides for or against Darwin; there appear almost daily larger or smaller treatises on the theory of descent, natural selection, and especially, as we may expect, on the descent of man, since there are many members of this particular species who lose their wits, if any doubt is raised of the genuineness of their ancestral tree. Despite this great movement, we may still maintain unchanged nearly everything that we wrote on Darwinism eight years ago, though we can no longer leave the matter where...

Edward Thomas [and] Robert Frost

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906578220
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Edward Thomas [and] Robert Frost written by Edward Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains poems, without any commentary, enabling them to be used either as student reference material or as 'clean' copies for the examination.

Literature and the Bible

Author : Jo Carruthers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415698528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Bible written by Jo Carruthers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors bring together a selection of key critical and theoretical materials from the last thirty years or so that focus on the long and complex relationship between the western literary tradition and the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Arranged across nine sections, eachcontains an introduction, approximately four previously published extracts, and further reading lists. This book is essential reading for anyone studying Literature and the Bible on undergraduate English, Religion and Theology degrees.

Garbage Citizenship

Author : Rosalind Fredericks
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002506
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Garbage Citizenship written by Rosalind Fredericks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action. Fleshing out the materiality of trash and degraded labor, Fredericks illuminates the myriad ways waste can be a potent tool of urban control and rebellion.