Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Bielefeld : transcript, 2022.

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Additional Authors

• Boehm-Schnitker, Nadine, 1975-
• Hartner, Marcus

Description

224 pages; 23 cm.

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."--

Series Statement

Culture & theory ; volume 258

Uniform Title

Culture & theory ; v. 258.

Subject

• 1700-1799
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Comparison (Grammar)
• English language > 18th century > Comparison
• British literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• British literature
• English language > Comparison
• English literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Comparative practices in Britain's long eighteenth century: an introduction / Marcus Hartner & Nadine Böhm-Schnitker -- The creation of the English nation: Alfred the Great as role model / Julia Wiedemann -- The circulating library, the novel, and implicit practices of comparing in eighteenth-century England: assembling 'middle-class' literariness / Ralf Schneider -- Comparing conduct: English novels of the long eighteenth century and the formation of ideals of social behavior / Marcus Hartner & Ralf Schneider -- The complexity of narrative comparisons in Wollstonecraft's Maria; or, The wrongs of woman and Lennox's The female Quixote / Anne Lappert -- "'tis by comparison we can judge and chuse [sic]": incomparable Oroonoka / Monika Class -- Articulating differences: practices of comparing in British travel writing of the long eighteenth century / Nadine Böhm-Schnitker -- Oceans of non-relation: affect and narcissistic imperialism in sea poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More / Caroline Koegler -- Practices of comparing in eighteenth-century grammars of English / Göran Wolf.

Call Number

PR448.C646

ISBN

• 9783837657999
• 383765799X

OCLC

• on1263760196
• 1263760196
• SCSB-14270333

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries