| Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Carruthers, Jo (Editor), Dakkak, Nour (Editor), Spence, Rebecca (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030298191 ISBN-13: 9783030298197 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 306 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.71 lbs) 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical 'turn' to materiality and affect. Critical volumes that approach literature via the prism of New Materialism are in the ascendence. This collection stakes a different claim: by engaging with neglected theories of materiality in literary and philosophical works that antedate the twenty-first century 'turn' to New Materialism and theories of affect, the project aims to establish a dialogue between recent theoretical considerations of people-world relations in literature and that which has gone before. This project seeks to demonstrate the particular and meaningful ways in which interactions between people and the physical world were being considered in literature between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project does not propose an air of finality; indeed, it is our hope that offering provocative and challenging chapters, which approach the subject from various critical and thematic perspectives, the collection will establish a broader dialogue regarding the ways in philosophy and literature have intersected and informed each other over the course of the long nineteenth century. |