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Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 - From Local to Global (Hardcover, New Ed): Juliet Shields Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 - From Local to Global (Hardcover, New Ed)
Juliet Shields; Evan Gottlieb
R4,447 Discovery Miles 44 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre, place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel's exclusive hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it contextualizes Romanticism's long-standing associations with the local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century studies.

Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 - From Local to Global (Paperback): Juliet Shields Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 - From Local to Global (Paperback)
Juliet Shields; Evan Gottlieb
R1,590 Discovery Miles 15 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre, place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel's exclusive hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it contextualizes Romanticism's long-standing associations with the local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century studies.

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory (Paperback): Evan Gottlieb Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory (Paperback)
Evan Gottlieb; Series edited by Daniel Robinson
R1,193 Discovery Miles 11 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a variety of relevant contemporary examples to illuminate the field. Evan Gottlieb contextualizes the latest developments with regard to forms; discourses; subjectivities and embodiments; media, networks, and machines; and animals, affects, objects, and environments. Each chapter elucidates its concepts through in-depth discussions of major contemporary theorists, including Giorgio Agamben, Sara Ahmed, and Catherine Malabou, and uses engaging examples from a canonical novel, a contemporary text, and a new-media artifact to demonstrate theoretical applications. Additional text boxes regularly introduce emerging or overlooked theorists of interest, including Fred Moten and Sianne Ngai. An ideal guide for students of literary and critical theory, this book will give readers the background they need to continue their own explorations of this vibrant field of study.

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory (Hardcover): Evan Gottlieb Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory (Hardcover)
Evan Gottlieb; Series edited by Daniel Robinson
R4,140 Discovery Miles 41 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory is a wide-ranging but accessible introduction to the key thinkers and theories integral to the study of literature. Organized thematically, the book provides historical introductions and uses a variety of relevant contemporary examples to illuminate the field. Evan Gottlieb contextualizes the latest developments with regard to forms; discourses; subjectivities and embodiments; media, networks, and machines; and animals, affects, objects, and environments. Each chapter elucidates its concepts through in-depth discussions of major contemporary theorists, including Giorgio Agamben, Sara Ahmed, and Catherine Malabou, and uses engaging examples from a canonical novel, a contemporary text, and a new-media artifact to demonstrate theoretical applications. Additional text boxes regularly introduce emerging or overlooked theorists of interest, including Fred Moten and Sianne Ngai. An ideal guide for students of literary and critical theory, this book will give readers the background they need to continue their own explorations of this vibrant field of study.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Paperback, Second Edition): Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Paperback, Second Edition)
Tobias Smollett; Edited by Evan Gottlieb
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In his last and finest novel, Tobias Smollett uses multiple letter writers to create a very funny and nearly kaleidoscopic vision of life in mid eighteenth-century Britain. As his protagonists travel about the countryside on their quest to restore patriarch Matthew Bramble s health, they unwittingly succeed in uniting Britain across boundaries of nation, class, religion, and gender. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition of 1771. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson for the 1793 edition, and a map by Charles Scavey. A new Backgrounds and Contexts section includes selections from Smollett s popular early poetry as well as important later nonfiction writing on history and the novel and the Anglo-Scottish Union, among others. Criticism is divided into two sections and presents the most important reviews and scholarly assessments of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Early Reviews and Criticism collects four major reviews from 1771 along with Sir Walter Scott s 1821 preface to the novel. Contemporary Criticism focuses on recent scholarship, with its emphasis on Smollett s connection and relevance to topics of critical interest, including nationalism, colonialism, the history of the novel, gender studies, and the histories of religion and medicine. Contributors include Eric Rothstein, John Zomchick, Robert Mayer, Charlotte Sussman, David Weed, Evan Gottlieb, Tara Ghoshal Wallace, Misty G. Anderson, and Annika Mann. A chronology of Smollett s life and work and a selected bibliography are also included."

Romantic Realities - Speculative Realism and British Romanticism (Hardcover): Evan Gottlieb Romantic Realities - Speculative Realism and British Romanticism (Hardcover)
Evan Gottlieb
R3,933 Discovery Miles 39 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Speculative realism is one of the most exciting, influential and controversial new branches of philosophy to emerge in recent years. Now, Evan Gottlieb shows that the speculative realism movement bears striking a resemblance to the ideas and beliefs of the best-known British poets of the Romantic era. Romantic Realities analyses the parallels and echoes between the ideas of the most influential contemporary practitioners of speculative realism and the poetry and poetics of the most innovative Romantic poets. In doing so, it introduces you to the intellectual precedents and contemporary stakes of speculative realism, together with new understandings of the philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching insights of British Romanticism. Readings include: The poetry and poetics of Wordsworth in relation to Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology and Timothy Morton's dark ecology Coleridge's poems and ideas in relation to Ray Brassier's philosophical nihilism and Iain Hamilton Grant's revisionist readings of Schelling Shelley's oeuvre in relation to Quentin Meillassoux's radical immanentism and Manuel DeLanda's process ontology Byron's best-known poems in relation to Alain Badiou's truth procedures and Bruno Latour's actor-network-theory Keats' oeuvre in relation to Levi Bryant's onticology and Ian Bogost's alien phenomenology

Romantic Realities - Speculative Realism and British Romanticism (Paperback): Evan Gottlieb Romantic Realities - Speculative Realism and British Romanticism (Paperback)
Evan Gottlieb
R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Speculative realism is one of the most exciting, influential and controversial new branches of philosophy to emerge in recent years. Now, Evan Gottlieb shows that the speculative realism movement bears striking a resemblance to the ideas and beliefs of the best-known British poets of the Romantic era. Romantic Realities analyses the parallels and echoes between the ideas of the most influential contemporary practitioners of speculative realism and the poetry and poetics of the most innovative Romantic poets. In doing so, it introduces you to the intellectual precedents and contemporary stakes of speculative realism, together with new understandings of the philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching insights of British Romanticism. Readings include: The poetry and poetics of Wordsworth in relation to Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology and Timothy Morton's dark ecology Coleridge's poems and ideas in relation to Ray Brassier's philosophical nihilism and Iain Hamilton Grant's revisionist readings of Schelling Shelley's oeuvre in relation to Quentin Meillassoux's radical immanentism and Manuel DeLanda's process ontology Byron's best-known poems in relation to Alain Badiou's truth procedures and Bruno Latour's actor-network-theory Keats' oeuvre in relation to Levi Bryant's onticology and Ian Bogost's alien phenomenology

Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory (Paperback, New): Evan Gottlieb Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory (Paperback, New)
Evan Gottlieb
R1,490 Discovery Miles 14 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A bestselling author in his own time and long after, Sir Walter Scott was not only a writer of thrilling tales of romance and adventure but also an insightful historical thinker and literary craftsman. Over the last two decades, scholars have come to see him as an important figure in Romantic-period literature, Scottish literature and the development of the historical novel. Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory builds on this renewed appreciation of Scott's importance by viewing his most significant novels - from Waverley and Rob Royto Ivanhoe,Redgauntlet, and beyond - through the lens of contemporary critical theory. By juxtaposing pairings of Scott's early and later novels with major contemporary theoretical concepts and the work of such thinkers as Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek, this book uses theory to illuminate the complexities of Scott's fictions, while simultaneously using Scott's fictions to explain and explore the state of contemporary theory.

Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory (Hardcover, New): Evan Gottlieb Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory (Hardcover, New)
Evan Gottlieb
R5,815 Discovery Miles 58 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A bestselling author in his own time and long after, Sir Walter Scott was not only a writer of thrilling tales of romance and adventure but also an insightful historical thinker and literary craftsman. Over the last two decades, scholars have come to see him as an important figure in Romantic-period literature, Scottish literature and the development of the historical novel. Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory builds on this renewed appreciation of Scott's importance by viewing his most significant novels - from Waverley and Rob Royto Ivanhoe,Redgauntlet, and beyond - through the lens of contemporary critical theory. By juxtaposing pairings of Scott's early and later novels with major contemporary theoretical concepts and the work of such thinkers as Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek, this book uses theory to illuminate the complexities of Scott's fictions, while simultaneously using Scott's fictions to explain and explore the state of contemporary theory.

Beyond Sense and Sensibility - Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth (Paperback): Peggy... Beyond Sense and Sensibility - Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth (Paperback)
Peggy Thompson; Contributions by Rhona Brown, Leslie A. Chilton, Timothy Erwin, Evan Gottlieb, …
R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How reliable or desirable is feeling as a moral guide or a test of character? How does such a focus contribute to moral isolation and elitism or, conversely, social connectedness and inclusion? How can we distinguish between that connectedness and a disciplinary socialization? How do insensible processes contribute to our moral formation and action? What alternatives lie beyond the anthropomorphism implied by sense and sensibility? Drawing extensively on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, this volume of essays examines moral formation represented in or implicitly produced by a range of texts, including Boswell's literary criticism, Fergusson's poetry, Burney's novels, Doddridge's biography, Smollett's novels, Charlotte Smith's children's books, Johnson's essays, Gibbon's history, and Wordsworth's poetry. The distinctive conceptual and textual breadth of Beyond Sense and Sensibility yields a rich reassessment and augmentation of the two perspectives summarized by the terms sense and sensibility in later eighteenth-century Britain.

Global Romanticism - Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760-1820 (Paperback): Evan Gottlieb Global Romanticism - Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760-1820 (Paperback)
Evan Gottlieb; Contributions by Samuel Baker, Miranda Burgess, Ian Duncan, Anthony Jarrells, …
R1,862 Discovery Miles 18 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics' theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760-1820 charts a new intellectual course by exploring the literature and culture of the Romantic era through the lens of long-durational globalization. In a series of wide-ranging but complementary chapters, this provocative collection of essays by established scholars makes the case that many British Romantics were committed to conceptualizing their world as an increasingly interconnected whole. In doing so, moreover, they were both responding to and shaping early modern versions of the transnational economic, political, sociocultural, and ecological forces known today as globalization.

Approaches to Teaching Scott's Waverley Novels (Hardcover): Evan Gottlieb, Ian Duncan Approaches to Teaching Scott's Waverley Novels (Hardcover)
Evan Gottlieb, Ian Duncan
R2,622 Discovery Miles 26 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scott's Waverley novels, as his fiction is collectively known, are increasingly popular in the classroom, where they fit into courses that explore topics from Victorianism and nationalism to the rise of the publishing industry and the cult of the author. As the editors of this volume recognize, however, Scott's fictions present unusual challenges to instructors. Students need guidance, for instance, in navigating Scott's use of vernacular Scots and antique styles, sorting through his historical and geographical references, and distinguishing his multiple authorial personas. The essays in this volume are designed to help teachers negotiate these and other intriguing features of the Waverley novels. Part 1, "Materials," guides instructors in selecting appropriate editions of the Waverley novels for classroom use. It also categorizes and lists background and critical studies of Scott's novels and recommends additional readings for students, as well as multimedia instructional resources.

The essays in part 2 examine the novels' relation to Scottish history, Scott's use of language, and concepts of Romantic authorship; consider gender, legal, queer, and multicultural approaches; recommend strategies for teaching Scott alongside other authors such as Jane Austen; and offer detailed ideas for introducing individual novels to students--from imagining Ivanhoe in the context of nineteenth-century medievalism to reconsidering how the ethical issues raised in "Old Mortality" reflect on religion and violence in our own day.

Approaches to Teaching Scott's Waverley Novels (Paperback): Evan Gottlieb Approaches to Teaching Scott's Waverley Novels (Paperback)
Evan Gottlieb
R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scott's Waverley novels, as his fiction is collectively known, are increasingly popular in the classroom, where they fit into courses that explore topics from Victorianism and nationalism to the rise of the publishing industry and the cult of the author. As the editors of this volume recognize, however, Scott's fictions present unusual challenges to instructors. Students need guidance, for instance, in navigating Scott's use of vernacular Scots and antique styles, sorting through his historical and geographical references, and distinguishing his multiple authorial personas. The essays in this volume are designed to help teachers negotiate these and other intriguing features of the Waverley novels. Part 1, "Materials," guides instructors in selecting appropriate editions of the Waverley novels for classroom use. It also categorizes and lists background and critical studies of Scott's novels and recommends additional readings for students, as well as multimedia instructional resources.

The essays in part 2 examine the novels' relation to Scottish history, Scott's use of language, and concepts of Romantic authorship; consider gender, legal, queer, and multicultural approaches; recommend strategies for teaching Scott alongside other authors such as Jane Austen; and offer detailed ideas for introducing individual novels to students--from imagining Ivanhoe in the context of nineteenth-century medievalism to reconsidering how the ethical issues raised in "Old Mortality" reflect on religion and violence in our own day.

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