This collection features leading literary critics and explores the
role of language in thinking about the ways in which the world
might be otherwise, and the history of contingency as a
longstanding literary concept. The defining feature of contingency
lies in the suggestion that things that have already happened might
have been otherwise. Central to late twentieth century European
critical and sociological thinking, that argument is at the centre
of this volume. The contributors to this volume explore subjects
including how literature, philosophy and history all cope with
contingency; the existence of contingency in genres as diverse as
enlightenment fables, Aristotle, Hardy, Jane Austen, and post-war
American literature; the contingency of old age and the poetics of
contingency. As the chapters here illustrate, our efforts to
understand each other involve a constant opening onto being
otherwise; an enterprise in which the role of the literary critic
remains key. Of interest to scholars across a range of literary
genres, this volume would also have applications for philosophy
researchers exploring the metaphysics of contingency. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
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