An ecological and postcolonial study of literature : from Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie / by Robert P. Marzec.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marzec, Robert P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Inclosures in literature.

Land tenure in literature.

Land use in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Ontology in literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 200 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: Notes toward an Ontology of Land 1

I Introduction: The Robinson Crusoe Syndrome and the Enclosure Movement 1

II Enclosures and Inhabitancy 8

III Robinson Crusoe and the Tour 13

IV Conclusion-Global Enclosures 22

Chapter 2 The Territorialization of Land 27

I Imperialism and the Territorialization of Land: The Native Ground of Heidegger's "Earth" 30

II Imperialism and the Deterritorialization of Land: Deleuze and Guattari's "Stockpiling" 37

III Sticks of Mead: A Genealogy of Enclosures, the Open-Field System, and the Commons 42

IV Daniel Defoe and Arthur Young: The Panoptic "General View" 51

V The Material Mechanism That Holds It All Together: Adam Naming the Land 65

VI Native Earth: The "Tenacious Cement" 71

Chapter 3 Problematizing Enclosure in Eighteenth-Century English Literature 77

I Introduction: The Landscape of Enclosure 77

II Enclosure in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews 86

III Anchoring a Disciplinarity of the Land in Humphrey Clinker 100

Chapter 4 Inhabiting Land in the Age of Empire: Twentieth-Century Literature 113

I The Return of Native Earth: Thomas Hardy 113

II Inhabiting the Land in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow 123

III A Land at War with the Human: Forster's Narratology of the Speculative in Howards End and A Passage to India 135

IV Nation and Nonnarration: Salman Rushdie's Inhabiting of a Postcolonial Land 153

V Postscript: The Appeal of the Land and the Lost Ontology of Inhabitancy 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-197) and index.

ISBN:

1403976406

9781403976406

OCLC:

71779099

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