Comparative practices literature, language, and culture in Britain's long eighteenth century
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 practic...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld
transcript Verlag
2022
Bielefeld : [2022] |
| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Edition Kulturwissenschaft ;
Volume 258. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654588106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
