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The Afterlife of Enclosure
British Realism, Character, and the Commons
Taschenbuch von Carolyn J Lesjak
Sprache: Englisch

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"The bold challenge at the heart of this study is to renew our understanding of realist literature, not as stale, outdated, or even dead, but as witness to the "slow violence" of material and environmental dispossession and as bearer of radical, utopian energies. The three realist writers who are the focus of this study-Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy-each trace a series of figurations of the common in the wake of the physical or literal commons' destruction, endowing both the historical trauma that was enclosure and the utopian spirit that the commons embodied with an afterlife, one that reveals a radical politics at the heart of these most canonical writers' works"--
"The bold challenge at the heart of this study is to renew our understanding of realist literature, not as stale, outdated, or even dead, but as witness to the "slow violence" of material and environmental dispossession and as bearer of radical, utopian energies. The three realist writers who are the focus of this study-Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy-each trace a series of figurations of the common in the wake of the physical or literal commons' destruction, endowing both the historical trauma that was enclosure and the utopian spirit that the commons embodied with an afterlife, one that reveals a radical politics at the heart of these most canonical writers' works"--
Über den Autor
Carolyn Lesjak is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (2006).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Realism and the Commons

1. The Persistence of the Commons, The Persistence of Enclosure

2. Dickensian Types and a Culture of the Commons

3. Eliot, Cosmopolitanism, and the Commons

4. The Typical and the Tragic in Hardy's Geopolitical Commons

Afterword: Old and New Enclosures
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503627819
ISBN-10: 1503627810
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lesjak, Carolyn J
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 231 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Carolyn J Lesjak
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
Artikel-ID: 118820190
Über den Autor
Carolyn Lesjak is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (2006).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Realism and the Commons

1. The Persistence of the Commons, The Persistence of Enclosure

2. Dickensian Types and a Culture of the Commons

3. Eliot, Cosmopolitanism, and the Commons

4. The Typical and the Tragic in Hardy's Geopolitical Commons

Afterword: Old and New Enclosures
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503627819
ISBN-10: 1503627810
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lesjak, Carolyn J
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 231 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Carolyn J Lesjak
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,34 kg
Artikel-ID: 118820190
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