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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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transcript Verlag,
2022.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- 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