Comparative practices : literature, language, and culture in Britain's long eighteenth century / Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Marcus Hartner, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine, Editor.

Contributor:

Hartner, Marcus, editor.

Boehm-Schnitker, Nadine, 1975- editor.

Series:

Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; Volume 258.

Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; Volume 258, 2702-8968.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British literature.

English language--Comparison.

English language.

Comparison (Grammar).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation of bodies, artefacts, discourses and ideas, and aims to investigate how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Comparative Practices in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century

The Creation of the English Nation: Alfred the Great as Role Model

The Circulating Library, the Novel, and Implicit Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century England: Assembling ‘Middle-Class’ Literariness

Comparing Conduct: English Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century and the Formation of Ideals of Social Behaviour

The Complexity of Narrative Comparisons in Wollstonecraft’s Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman and Lennox’s The Female Quixote

“’tis by Comparison we can Judge and Chuse [sic!]”: Incomparable Oroonoko

Articulating Differences: Practices of Comparing in British Travel Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century

Oceans of Non-Relation: Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More

Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century Grammars of English

Authors and Editors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783839457993

3839457998

OCLC:

1294426416

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access