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Book SynopsisThis book explores the cross-cultural reception of Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with word deconstruction. It is the first book to consider the cultural reception of Derrida's works, its accessible language and structure help to make this a benchmark amongst introductory Derrida studies.Trade Review'Through offering...an 'introduction' to Derrida's work in the context of literary studies, it also provides the advanced student of Derrida and researchers who specialize in the field of literary theory, poststructuralism, and 'deconstruction' much to consider, and equally much to reassess...one can only wish that there were more books of this quality on Derrida.' - Professor Julian Wolfreys, Department of English, University of Florida, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Task of the Translator: Translation as Transformation Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Deconstruction in America The Deconstruction of a Pedagogical Institution: Derrida and the 'Principle of Reason' The Postmodern Political Condition: Deconstruction and Enlightenment The Politics of the Proper Name: Nietzsche, Derrida and De Man Disfigured Maintaining the Presence of Marx: Marxism and Deconstruction Afterword: Legacy Bibliography Index of Works by Jacques Derrida Index

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Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of ''Eastern barbarity''.Trade Review'Overall this is an impressive book which synthesizes disparate narratives of discovery, morality, and gender differentiation to illuminate the role of women in early modern culture.' - Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Renaissance Crossings; Widows, Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations Instructions for Christian Women: The Sati and European Widows Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers Civility and "dying" to Speak: the Sati, Fetish, and History

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Book SynopsisWhat is the value of literature? In this important new work, Thomas Docherty charts a new economic history of literary culture and its institutions in the modern age. From the literary patronage of the early modern period, through the colonial exploitation of the 18th and 19th centuries to the institutionalisation of literature in the neoliberal university of the 21st century, Literature and Capital explores the changing ways in which literary culture has both resisted and become complicit with exploitative economic notions of value. Drawing on the work of economic and political thinkers such as Thomas Piketty, Naomi Klein, Edward Said and Raymond Williams, the book includes readings of work by a wide range of canonical authors from Shakespeare, Donne and Swift to Tolstoy, Woolf and Ishiguro.Trade ReviewAn impassioned critique of financial capitalism and its relationship to the institution of literature ... [The] breadth in literary selection no doubt reveals Docherty’s mastery over this canonical corpus ... Literature and Capital is written in a clear, accessible language. * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *A radical reappraisal of the ways in which literary study challenges and is challenged by the ascent of money. This is a work of panoptic precision, in which intellectual passion is matched by sound scholarly scruple. * Declan Kiberd, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA *Literature and Capital is a wonderful wide-ranging and erudite study. At once tolerant and angry, and written with great perception and persuasion, it details with a powerful intelligence the relationships between literature, land, education, enquiry and the various cultural organisations of capital. Thomas Docherty is a critical provocateur for our times and this book is the kind of urgent and committed scholarship that the present requires. * Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, University of Leeds, UK *An impassioned and cogent analysis of the entwining of literature and capital that continually impresses on account of its historical depth and critical vigilance. Above all, a compelling argument for why a radical study of literature is needed to engage with the multiple challenges of our times. * Michael Rossington, Professor of Romantic Literature, Newcastle University, UK *This is a very important book in the backdrop of our contemporary thinking around literature, marketplace, survival, funds and capital. Through a deeply meshed intervention involving human, cultural, institutional and financial capital, Docherty has pulled off a stunning achievement where credit and literary creditilization and credibility have come into a formidable play. * Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India *Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: Land and Letters 1. Capital and the Embrace of Letters 2. On the Credibility of Writing: Material Promise 3. The Career of English Part 2: Culture and Capital 4. Governing the Tongue 5. Inequality, Management and the Hatred of Literature 6. Cultural Capital and the Shameful University Part 3: Institutional and Human Capital 7. The Privatization of All Interests 8. Radical Geography Index

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Book SynopsisShakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized around clusters of key metaphors, the book explicates the principal theories informing the field of Shakespearean adaptation and surveys the growing field of case studies by Shakespeare scholars. Each chapter also looks anew at a specific Shakespeare play from the perspective of a prevailing set of theories and metaphors. Having identified the key critics responsible for developing these metaphors and for framing the discussion in this way, Iyengar moves on to analyze afresh the implications of these critical frames for adaptation studies as a whole and for particular Shakespeare plays. Focusing each chapter around a different play, the book contrasts comic, tragic, and tragicomic modes in Shakespeare''s oeuvre and within the major genres of adaptation (e.g., film, stage-production, novelTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Note on Texts and Sources Used Introduction: Much Ado About Adaptation What or Whom are we Adapting? Metaphors We Adapt By Adaptation as Annotation in Much Ado 1. Plants, Off-shoots, Genes: Rhizomes Plants Off-shoots Genes Rhizomes: Plantation in some Tempests 2. Art, Property, Theft: Appropriation Art Property Theft Appropriation as Revisioning: Othello without Othello (and Desdemona) 3. Fidelity, Families, Ethics: Derivatives Fidelity Families: Lear among the Editors Ethics and Editing Derivatives: Lear’s Progeny 4. Transfer, Remediation, Broadcast: Intermedia Transfer Remediation Broadcast and Podcast Intermedia: Audio Hamlets 5. Memes, Networks, Fans: Transformations Memes Networks Fans Transformations: A Gender-Agenda in Twelfth Night 6. Relocation, Translation, Hybridization: Tradaptation Relocation Translation Hybridization Tradaptation: The Peregrinations of Pericles 7. Accidents, Remains, Traces: Accommodations Accidents Remains Traces Accommodations: Romeo and Juliet Glossary of Selected Terms, Philip Gilreath with Sujata Iyengar Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one of these passages in Aesthetic Theory, So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to say: I am a rhinoceros', this book explores the life of this animal in Adorno's texts, and articulates the nuanced interconnections between art, nature and critique in his thought.By thus illuminating key elements of Adorno's work, this volume reveals the invaluable contributions that this classical' thinker can make to our current reflections on the various pressing natural and political crises of our times.Trade ReviewIn these probing, eloquent, and sometimes lacerating essays, Adorno’s continuing fascination with the rhinoceros is the occasion for commentary on his claim that art, at least now, emerges as the stand-in for an absent nature, for a nature facing extinction. A surprising and demanding addition to both Adorno studies, and human reflection on art and the approaching disaster. * J.M. Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA *Taking Adorno’s enduring interest in the enigmatic rhinoceros as its starting point, this volume gives us a multi-faceted exploration of crucial dialectics in Adorno’s thought, from the place of artworks in the dialectic of culture and nature to the distance between language and selfhood and the utopian promise in animals. * Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Psychoanalyst in private practice, USA *Adorno’s Rhinoceros is a modern day bestiary of a single and singular animal, whose presence in art and culture stands in stark contrast to its imminent absence from the natural world. At once a marvelous collection of essays, and a collection of marvelous essays, each chapter has an intriguingly tight focus on one motif in Adorno's philosophy, and one line of his Aesthetic Theory. Yet the essays radiate into the diverse topics of 'dumb' animal nature, of the enigmatic nature of artworks and their muteness, and explore philosophical questions of selfhood, transcendence, metaphysics and secularization. * Gordon Finlayson, Professor of Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, UK *Centring on the enigmatic image of the rhinoceros, this brilliant volume of essays by established and emerging scholars explores how Adorno's bestiary dialectically configures an anticipation of the as yet unrealized promise of culture as well as the memory trace of its catastrophic failure. * Samir Gandesha, Professor of Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Introduction: The enigma of the rhinoceros, Antonia Hofstätter, (University of Warwick, UK) 2. In the name of the rhinoceros: expression beyond human intention, Camilla Flodin (Uppsala University, Sweden) 3. The rhinoceros at the bottom of the sea: Adorno, Dürer and the silent eloquence of artworks, Antonia Hofstätter (University of Warwick, UK) 4. Just one line: reading T. W. Adorno on humans, artworks and animals, Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, USA) 5. The mute animal, Alexander García Düttmann (Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany) 6. The speaking animal: on a metaphor of humanity, Sebastian Tränkle (Freie Universität, Germany) 7. The gaze of the rhinoceros and the ‘it’ of Aesthetic Theory, Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar, Austria) 8. The muted animal, Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA) 9. Epilogue: On the actuality of Adorno’s rhinoceros – extraction, extinction and dignity, Daniel Steuer (Independent Scholar, Austria) Index

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Book SynopsisWriting against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and deeply affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the critical medical humanities, extending beyond individual pathology and the medical institution to think about subjective and social perspectives, and to open up the various sites, scenes and interactions with which suicide is associated. Suicide is related forward from the point of death, rather than taking a retrospective view. Combining critical and textual analysis with personal reflection based on her own experience of her sister's suicide, Whitehead examines the days, months, and years following a death by suicide. This pivoting of attention to what happens in the wake of suicide brings to light the often-surprising ways in which suicide is woven into the everydTrade ReviewThe taboos surrounding suicide run deep. I couldn’t speak about my brother’s death for over a decade. This poignant book creates a space to challenge and rethink our own perceptions of suicide and mental health - both as individuals, and as a society as a whole. * Orlando von Einsiedel, Filmmaker *Weaving personal experience together with extensive research, Relating Suicide bears witness to what it means to live beside suicide. It calls for the need to not only talk more about suicide, but also to listen more to a diversity of voices, and to accommodate for what resides between what we can and cannot know about suicide. This is an absolute must read for students and researchers focusing on the topic of suicide and for those who work in suicide prevention and want to understand suicide in more expansive terms. * Katrina Jaworski, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of South Australia *With her own sister’s death as poignant provocation, Anne Whitehead attends to the materiality of suicide’s aftermath and makes a compelling contribution to the emerging field of critical suicide studies. A watch, a coroner’s court room, a stretch of seaside beach, a memorial bench become the objects and spaces that allow her to sit with the everyday and ongoing presence of suicide without trying to explain or prevent it. Through deeply felt and creative forms of thinking and writing, Whitehead gently but forcefully forges a path for us to relate to suicide rather than turning away from it. -- Ann Cvetkovich, Professor, Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaThis is a wonderful book. Entirely original, beautifully written, hugely wide ranging. At last a serious and profound engagement with what comes after suicide: the extraordinary disturbances of time and perception for those remaining; the mundane and often forgotten judicial, religious and cultural processes that have sought to contain and circumscribe an event; the historical and ongoing resonances and effects of stigmatisation. Lyrical, analytic, philosophical and factual, this is also achieves that very difficult feat of being personal without being confessional and of being philosophical and political without relegating the profoundly experiential. -- Pat Waugh, Professor Emeritus, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why? Chapter 1: When? Chapter 2: How? Chapter 3: Where? Coda: Who? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFor those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge assumptions about how we remember and tell the truth of our lives when we write about it. Innovative in approach and making new critical ideas accessible, each chapter maps out the key principles of such writers as Barthes, Lacan, Derrida, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Philippe Le Jeune and Joseph Campbell, invokes literary examples to show how other writers have mastered the idea before reflecting on how you can practically apply the theory to your writing. With original exercises and prompts for further reading that bridge the gap between the theoretical and how it might be put into practice, the book is attentive to the multiple facets of the genre of nonfiction writing generally, covering such topics as: - The writer/ reader contract- How to embark on a thematic/ symbolic exploration of thTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is radical memoir? Chapter one: The reader/writer contract: how do we write ‘truth’? Chapter two: Memoir as cartography: mapping your life Chapter three: Your life as a hero’s journey Chapter four: Memory and neuroscience Chapter five: Turning real people into characters Chapter six: Writing memoir as decolonial, genre-busting and rule-bending act Chapter seven: Memoir as erasure Chapter eight: Collective memoir: writing with others Chapter nine: Autrebiography Chapter ten: Biographemes Conclusion: The magnificent risk of memoir

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Book SynopsisA thorough account of the engagements with the Gothic mode by Irish artists from the eighteenth century to today.

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Book SynopsisSubstantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena.Trade Review"To say that Rebecca Duncan's The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is cutting edge doesn't do it justice. It is an astonishing collection that will reconfigure the field of Gothic studies and define its direction for years to come. It is an absolutely essential work.?" -Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

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Book SynopsisReflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiographical, for the first time

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Book SynopsisExplores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

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Book SynopsisArgues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for living in a more-than-human world

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Book SynopsisExamines the life and works of Ernest Hemingway through the lens of posthumanism.

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Book SynopsisNow in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies Features a new section, Writing ''Glocal'', which covers feminism''s dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual information while extensive notes offer recommendations for further reading Trade Review“Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader is an indispensable guide, companion and handbook for students and teachers of women’s literature. No other anthology offers so many bite-sized tasters of work on gendered authorship, literary production, critical reception, sexuality and genre – from romantic fiction to travel writing. Mary Eagleton’s clear and informative introductions contextualize the debates represented by each extract, suggest connections between them and point to further reading. This third edition maintains and develops the irreplaceable breadth of the previous editions with several new pieces on such areas as autobiography, science fiction and border talk. The extra section, ‘Writing “Glocal”’, investigates dynamically evolving dialogues between feminism and postcolonialism, diaspora narratives and transculturalism. Whether you read from start to finish or choose to sample selectively, this rich collection will expand your knowledge and understanding of feminist thought, both as an historical discipline and as an excitingly relevant and progressive set of ideas.” —Jane Dowson, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsPreface xii Acknowledgments xvi 1 Finding a Female Tradition Introduction 1 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 9 A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing Elaine Showalter 11 ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’ Adrienne Rich 15 Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory Chris Weedon 19 ‘The Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies’ Ann Ducille 21 ‘Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties’ Paul Lauter 26 ‘Telling Feminist Stories’ Clare Hemmings 33 Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodernist Culture Rita Felski 37 ‘Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilineal Thought’ Linda R. Williams 41 Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon Jane Spencer 45 ‘Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986’ Nancy K. Miller 47 ‘What Women’s Eyes See’ Viviane Forrester 50 ‘Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy’ Shoshana Felman 51 Writing Women’s Literary History Margaret J. M. Ezell 52 The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain Betty A. Schellenberg 56 2 Women and Literary Production Introduction 61 Extracts from: A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 70 ‘Professions for Women’ Virginia Woolf 75 Silences Tillie Olsen 77 The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 82 ‘Writing Like a Woman: A Question of Politics’ Terry Lovell 90 The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen Jane Spencer 93 ‘Emily Brontë in the Hands of Male Critics’ Carol Ohmann 95 ‘Toward a Black Feminist Criticism’ Barbara Smith 98 ‘Christina Rossetti: Diary of a Feminist Reading’ Isobel Armstrong 103 ‘Conversations’ Hélène Cixous Et Al. 106 ‘Mapping Contemporary Women’s Fiction after Bourdieu’ Mary Eagleton 110 Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain Claire Squires 115 The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins Graham Huggan 119 The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678–1730 Paula Mcdowell 123 ‘Black Woman Talk’ Black Woman Talk Collective 126 ‘Introduction’, Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain Lauretta Ngcobo 127 Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics Simone Murray 129 ‘Pushed to the Margins: The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore’ Kathryn Mcgrath 131 3 Gender and Genre Introduction 135 A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 143 Literary Women Ellen Moers 145 ‘Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis’ Juliet Mitchell 147 Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel Nancy Armstrong 151 ‘Towards a Feminist Narratology’ Susan S. Lanser 154 Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives Marilyn R. Farwell 158 Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms Robyn R. Warhol 161 ‘Introduction’, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems Cora Kaplan 163 ‘Small Island People: Black British Women Playwrights’ Meenakshi Ponnuswami 166 ‘Varieties of Women’s Writing’ Clare Brant 167 Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Rosemary Jackson 172 Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today Rosalind Coward 173 Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars Alison Light 177 The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism Nicola Humble 182 ‘Afterword: The New Woman’s Fiction’ Shari Benstock 186 Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women’s Fiction Susan Sellers 187 4 Towards Definitions of Feminist Writing Introduction 191 ‘“This Novel Changes Lives”: Are Women’s Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O’Rourke’s Article “Summer Reading”’ Rosalind Coward 199 ‘Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics’ Michèle Barrett 203 ‘What is Lesbian Literature? Forming a Historical Canon’ Lillian Faderman 207 ‘American Feminist Literary Criticism: A Bibliographical Introduction’ Cheri Register 210 ‘Introduction’, Feminism Meets Queer Theory Elizabeth Weed 216 ‘Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism’ Annette Kolodny 219 ‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’ Elaine Showalter 222 Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Toril Moi 225 Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity Alice A. Jardine 228 ‘Flight Reservations: The Anglo-American/French Divide in Feminist Criticism’ Rachel Bowlby 230 ‘Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism’ Nancy Fraser And Linda J. Nicholson 234 ‘Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern’ Robyn Wiegman 235 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Bell Hooks 238 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism Madhu Dubey 241 Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter Susan Stanford Friedman 244 The Radical Aesthetic Isobel Armstrong 248 What is a Woman? And Other Essays Toril Moi 251 Undoing Gender Judith Butler 254 ‘The Race for Theory’ Barbara Christian 257 ‘Woman Can Never Be Defined’ Julia Kristeva 261 ‘Discursive Desire: Catherine Belsey’s Feminism’ Marysa Demoor And Jürgen Pieters 262 5 Writing, Reading and Difference Introduction 266 Literary Women Ellen Moers 275 Thinking about Women Mary Ellmann 277 ‘Writing Like a Woman’ Peggy Kamuf 280 Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism Mary Jacobus 282 ‘Talking about Polylogue’ Julia Kristeva 284 Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing Nancy K. Miller 286 The Resisting Reader Judith Fetterley 288 ‘Reading as a Woman’ Jonathan Culler 291 ‘Reading Like a Man’ Robert Scholes 294 ‘How to Read a “Culturally Different” Book’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 296 The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 Kate Flint 300 Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England Jan Fergus 303 Reading Groups Jenny Hartley 306 ‘The Powers of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine’ Luce Irigaray 308 ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ Hélène Cixous 311 ‘Castration or Decapitation?’ Hélène Cixous 314 ‘Language and Revolution: The Franco–American Dis-connection’ Domna C. Stanton 316 ‘Made in America: “French Feminism” in Academia’ Claire Goldberg Moses 318 Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing Hélène Cixous And Mireille Calle-Gruber 321 6 Locating the Subject Introduction 325 ‘A Question of Subjectivity: An Interview’ Julia Kristeva 333 ‘Femininity and Its Discontents’ Jacqueline Rose 335 Critical Practice Catherine Belsey 340 What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference Shoshana Felman 343 A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire Janice A. Radway 347 ‘Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation’ Seyla Benhabib 349 ‘Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory’ Linda Alcoff 352 ‘Upping the Anti (Sic) in Feminist Theory’ Teresa De Lauretis 355 Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference Diana Fuss 358 ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’ Donna Haraway 361 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldúa 366 Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject Carole Boyce Davies 369 ‘The Straight Mind’ Monique Wittig 372 Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 375 ‘Of OncoMice and FemaleMen: Donna Haraway on Cyborg Ontology’ Kate Soper 378 7 Writing ‘Glocal’ Introduction 381 En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives Sangeeta Ray 389 Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities Avtar Brah 391 Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem Reina Lewis 393 ‘French Feminism in an International Frame’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 396 ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ Chandra Talpade Mohanty 399 Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism Trinh T. Minh-Ha 402 ‘Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition’ Sara Suleri 405 Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies Rey Chow 407 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt 411 Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa 1855–1902 Laura E. Franey 415 ‘Introduction’, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers Amal Amireh And Lisa Suhair Majaj 417 Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique Benita Parry 420 Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985 Adrienne Rich 423 Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement Caren Kaplan 425 Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context Anne Mcclintock 428 Transnational Women’s Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland Susan Strehle 432 Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation Elleke Boehmer 434 Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Rosi Braidotti 437 Bibliography of Extracts 439 Index 447

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging exploration of the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Broad in its scope and ambition. Features essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy. Considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history.Trade Review“Traverses a range of methodological approaches and historical contexts in an attempt to provide an overview of what is substantially a characteristically ‘western’ art form. Expertly edited Companion.” (Notes and Queries, December 2009) “These essays, as would be expected from their authors, manifest a high standard of scholarship and familiarity with current understandings.... The volume has a place on the desk of every reference librarian at the college and university level." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) “The arrangement of the contents and an index that provides coverage of all the essays, allows immediate targeting of specific topics and quick referencing, whilst in its entirety the book provides an excellent survey of tragedy as it is currently studied. Aimed primarily at undergraduates and useful to postgraduates needing to orientate themselves in the scholarship of this area, this title is a useful addition to the academic library.” (Reference Reviews)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1Rebecca Bushnell Tragic Thought Part I Tragedy and the Gods 5 1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood 2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25Richard Seaford Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39 3 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41Kathy Eden 4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy 51Mark W. Roche 5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68James I. Porter 6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88Julia Reinhard Lupton Part III Tragedy and History 107 7 Tragedy and City 109Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub 8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128Hugh Grady 9 Tragedy and Feminism 145Victoria Wohl Tragedy in History Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity 161 10 Tragedy and Myth 163Alan H. Sommerstein 11 Tragedy and Epic 181Ruth Scodel 12 Tragedy in Performance 198Michael R. Halleran 13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions 215Claude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein 14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234Sheila Murnaghan 15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251Ralph M. Rosen 16 Roman Tragedy 269Alessandro Schiesaro Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 287 17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy 289Rebecca Bushnell 18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State 307Matthew H. Wikander 19 English Revenge Tragedy 328Michael Neill 20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Caldero´n 351Margaret R. Greer Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 371 21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France 373Richard E. Goodkin 22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine 393Mitchell Greenberg 23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy 411Jeffrey N. Cox 24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner 435Simon Richter 25 French Romantic Tragedy 452Barbara T. Cooper Part VII Tragedy and Modernity 469 26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe 471Gail Finney 27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater 488Brenda Murphy 28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances 505Timothy J. Reiss Index 537

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Book SynopsisRather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.Trade ReviewImpressively comprehensive and provocative... This strong and wide-ranging book... earns its authority from the wealth of information it provides... Its determination to expand the range of satirical writing, somewhat in the spirit of Eliot's admonition, is a long-needed redefinition of the scope of the subject... It also offers a considerable enlargement of our knowledge and understanding of a lively and turbulent terrain, whose boundaries are wider and more untidy than we have imagined. Times Literary Supplement Marshall... revolutionizes the study of 18th-century satire. She not only significantly revises accepted definitions of satire but also analyzes and describes vastly greater numbers of satiric works than have previous studies... This original, detailed account of satire during the period will challenge and shape the literary history of satire for decades to come. Essential. Choice So much material is included in The Practice of Satire in England, and its historiographic claims are so striking, that scholars will be discussing this book for some time. Perhaps most admirably, Marshall has put satire, recently a rather neglected genre, firmly back at the center of scholarly attention and debate. -- Nicholas Hudson Philological Quarterly The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770 is a tremendously ambitious book... at once, monumental and humble-conscious of its own audacity, unfailingly respectful of the scholars whose work is being called into question, yet also confident of its contribution to the advancement of humanistic learning. -- Matthew J. Kinservik Modern Philology Broadening the notion of satire to include more works, more kinds of works, and a wider range of satirical motives and effects, [Marshall] offers an account of eighteenth-century literature more amenable to contemporary sensibilities than those of previous proponents and detractors of satire. Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on Texts, Dates, and MoneyPart 1. Canonical and Noncanonical Satire, 1658–1770I. The "Definition" Quagmire and the Problem of Descriptive TerminologyII. Genre versus ModeIII. The Modern Critical Canon and Its ImplicationsIV. The Total Satire Canon and Its Economic ContextThe Production of Satire in England, 1658–1770Price, Format, Dissemination, and Implied AudiencesV. Some Issues of Coverage and OrganizationVI. The Uses of a Taxonomic MethodologyThe Varieties of SatireForecasting Some ConclusionsThe Nature of the EnterprisePart 2. Contemporary Views on Satire, 1658–1770I. Concepts of Satire"Satire"Definition by ContrastII. The Business of SatireThe Opposition to SatireThe Case for SatireIII. The Practice and Province of SatireAcceptable and Problematical Satiric MethodsAppropriate and Inappropriate Satiric TargetsIV. Characterizing the SatiristV. Perceptions of Eighteenth-Century Satire Then and NowPart 3. Satire in the Carolean PeriodI. Some Preliminary ConsiderationsII. Dryden, Rochester, BuckinghamCarolean DrydenRochesterBuckingham's Purposive SatireIII. Marvell, Ayloffe, OldhamMarvell as Polemical SatiristAyloffe's Antimonarchical DiatribesOldham's Juvenalian PerformancesIV. Hudibras and Other Camouflage SatiresV. Personal and Social Satire: From Lampoons to Otway and LeeVI. Chronological Change, 1658–1685VII. IssuesIntensityTonePresentation of PositivesThe Problem of ApplicationVIII. The Discontinuous World of Carolean SatirePart 4. Beyond CaroleanI. Altered CircumstancesII. Dryden as Satirist, 1685–1700III. Poetic SatireTutchin, Defoe, and Political SatireGould and Defamatory SatireGarth and BlackmoreBrown, Ward, and Commercial SatireIV. Dramatic SatireShadwell and Exemplary ComedyMitigated SatireHarsh Social SatireV. The State of Satire ca. 1700Part 5. Defoe, Swift, and New Varieties of Satire, 1700–1725I. Defoe as SatiristAttack and DefenseInstruction and Direct Warning (Aimed at the Audience)Indirect Exposure and DiscomfitureII. Religious and Political SatireTopical ControversyMonitory Satire in the Manner of DefoeIdeological Argumentation: Dunton, Defoe, and OthersIII. Social and Moral SatireGeneralized SatireDidactic Satire in the Manner of SteeleParticularized and Topical SatireArgument and InquiryIV. The Alleged "Scriblerians"V. Swift before GulliverJokiness and PlayDestruction and NegativityPurposive Defamation and DefenseIndirection and Difficult SatireVI. Characterizing the Early Eighteenth CenturyPart 6. Harsh and Sympathetic Satire, 1726–1745I. Pope and Swift among Their ContemporariesPolitical Commentary and CombatThe Culture WarsSocial SatireII. Pope, Swift, GayPopeSwiftGayIII. The Problem of Meaning in Gulliver's TravelsIV . Fielding and the Move toward Sympathetic SatirePlayful Satire and EntertainmentProvocation and PreachmentDistributive JusticeFielding's Concept of SatireSympathetic SatireV. Alive and WellPart 7. Churchill, Foote, Macklin, Garrick, Smollett, Sterne, and Others, 1745–1770I. The Rise of "Poetic" SatireFrivolity and EntertainmentMoral PreachmentParticularized AttackPoeticized SatireChurchill's Nonpolitical SatireII. Wilkes, Churchill, and Political Controversy in the 1760sThe North BritonChurchill's Political SatireVisual SatireWilkes's Essay on WomanIII. Satire in the Commercial TheaterSocial ComedyLightweight Afterpiece EntertainmentSamuel FooteCharles MacklinDavid GarrickIV. Satire in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century NovelSmollett's Dark SatireThe Late Career of FieldingTristram Shandy and the Singularity of SterneCharlotte Lennox, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah FieldingV. Satire for a Stable EraEpilogueI. Motives and ModesII. Remapping English Satire, 1658–1770AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPromoting critical and creative anachronism, Metaphors of Mind redefines the notion of an archive in the age of Amazon and Google Books.Trade ReviewWhile the book is not meant to be read as a monograph but as a dictionary, many well-versed readers will be tempted to do so anyway, so rich and lush are both language and litany. American Reference Books Annual ... the database behind the book lets one investigate the verb, instance by instance. The book itself provides a bird's eye view of its large terrain, and the reader can easily settle on specific images to investigate in the hundred pages of detailed endnotes. Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsAbout This BookAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Animals2. Coinage3. Courts4. Empire5. Fetters6. Impressions7. Inhabitants8. Metal9. Mirror10. Rooms11. WritingConclusionEpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisRomantic writers responded to the challenges of reform and revolution by rethinking the scope of political reason.What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British poets, philosophers, and polemicists in the years following the French Revolution.Timothy Michael argues that much literature of the period is a trial, or a critique, of reason in its political capacities and a test of the kinds of knowledge available to it. For Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Godwin, the historical sequence of revolution, counter-revolution, and terror in Franceand radicalism and repression in Britainoccasioned a dramatic reassessment of how best to advance the project of enlightenment. The political thought of Trade ReviewMichael offers extraordinary insights into many other matters, including the philosophy of Shelley, Coleridge and Kant... Deserve[s] a place on the bookshelf on anyone interested in British politics, American history, the history of India, philosophy (both ancient and 18th/19th century), poetry, the development of ideas and much else. Sun News Miami This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in a pleasingly clear manner. English Oxford Journals Michael's book effectively shows how, during the Enlightenment, the political was not a fixed point or concept. AmeriQuests This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in a pleasing clear manner. English Not the least of the strengths of this work is the lucidity of its author's style: the clarity with which he presents and prosecutes his thesis, summarizes or elaborates particular intellectual positions and debates as he sets out their bearings on his discussion, adds considerably to the force of his insights. European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Discipline of Political KnowledgeContextCases of RomanticismConceptual Orientations1. Kant and the Revolutionary Settlement of Early RomanticismRevolutions, Copernican and FrenchProphetic History and Moral TerrorismIndependence from ExperienceThe Rhetoric of Hurly-Burly Innovation2. Burke and the Critique of Political MetaphysicsHypotaxisParadox3. Wollstonecraft and the Vindication of Political ReasonRatiocinatioStale Tropes and Cold RodomontadeOur Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful4. The Government of the TongueThe Power of Mere PropositionConstructing a Form of WordsResisting "Incroachment"The Literature of Justice and Justification5. Coleridge and the Principles of Political KnowledgeHume and the Highest Problem of PhilosophyStructures of Mind and GovernmentThe Symptom of Empiricism6. The State of KnowledgeRational ResistanceThe Limits of Experimental PhilosophyTrying French PrinciplesPoetry and Poetics of the Excursive and Unbound Mind7. The Dwellers of the DwellingEpistemic HedonismTranquil and Troubled PleasureBuilding Social FreedomThe Inner Citadel of the Spirit8. P.B. Shelley and the Forms of ThoughtThe Case for Skeptical IdealismHistorical EpistemologyThe Atmosphere of Human ThoughtAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow the Civil War endures in American life through literature and culture. Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne MedalThe American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few other events. The story of the war has been retold in countless films, novels, poems, memoirs, plays, sculptures, and monuments. Often remembered as an emancipatory struggle, as an attempt to destroy slavery in America now and forever, it is also memorialized as a fight for Southern independence; as a fratricide that divided the national family; and as a dark, cruel conflict defined by its brutality. What do these stories, myths, and rumors have in common, and what do they teach us about modern America? In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs reveals how these narratives evolved over time and why they acquired such lasting power. Marrs addresses an eclectic range of texts, traditions, and creators, from Walt Whitman, Abram Ryan, and Abraham Lincoln to Margaret Mitchell, D. W. Griffith, and W.Trade ReviewMarrs examines the shifting landscape of Civil War perspectives throughout history using public memory and writing from creators such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, and Margaret Mitchell. He argues that this continual retelling and reinterpretation reveal the Civil War as an ongoing struggle never far from American consciousness and identity.—Chelsea Risley, Southern Review of BooksMarrs weaves a complex history to capture the essence of the literature and art surrounding the Civil War, resulting in a valuable work beneficial to a variety of collections.—Library JournalNot Even Past is a trenchant, wide-ranging survey of the history that binds us a nation while, at the same time, drives us apart. Because it still needs proving now and again, Marrs' book proves that the American Civil War is with us today as much as it was when it began a century and a half ago.—Lance Weller, New York Journal of BooksNot Even Past is an impressive feat that straddles the line between intense academic history and popular history. The world needs more such books.—Daniel Sunshine, Civil War Book ReviewThe reader is left with a sense of an America still divided, and, in the words of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Civil War as "...a social revolution... never allowed to complete itself."—Eric Hoffer Award CommitteeCody Marrs serves up a feast of Civil War stories in his timely, compact, and entertaining new analysis, Not Even the Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War.—LeAnna Keith, The Journal of Southern HistoryCody Marr's impressive, wide-ranging new book...—Michel LeMahieu, Clemson University, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1. A Family Squabble Chapter 2. A Dark and Cruel War Chapter 3. The Lost CauseChapter 4. The Great Emancipation Afterword. Recent and Future Civil Wars Acknowledgments NotesSuggested Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much if not more than urban and suburban areas.

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Book SynopsisComprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.

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Book SynopsisThis richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full scholarly appraisal of the distinctive British experimental writer, Ann Quin.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

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Book SynopsisIn Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art''s autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from Cindy Sherman''s photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form, such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical theory, and cTrade Review"In Autonomy, Brown revitalizes a modernist commitment to form and offers a compelling vision of the work of art in the age of its commodification." -- Adam Theron-Lee Rensch * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Brown's argument feels, in the end, surprisingly liberating.… No doubt, there are questions prompted by the book that we still might want to have answered.… But these queries are obviously presented less as a critique of Autonomy than a plea to scholars to take up related questions in future volumes. Autonomy inspires such questions because this is a book that unabashedly and provocatively makes demands of us, in the way the very best scholarship, like the very best manifestos and all art, does too." -- Lisa Siraganian * Modernism/modernity *"A thorough and valuable commentary on the contemporary position of art within capitalism. Autonomy is essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in contemporary art in relation to the market, and for those interested in Marxist approaches to contemporary aesthetic form." -- Oliver Haslam * New Formations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Art and the Commodity Form 1 1. Photography as Film and Film as Photography 41 2. The Novel and the Ruse of the Work 79 3. Citation and Affect in Music 115 4. Modernism on TV 152 Epilogue. Taking Sides 178 Notes 183 Bibliography 207 Index 215

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Book SynopsisOver the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked tenderness, the contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on Sedgwick''s many critical inventions, from her elucidation of poetry''s close relation to criticism and development of new versions of queer performativity to highlighting the power of writing to engender new forms of life. As the essays in Reading Sedgwick demonstrate, Sedgwick''s work is not only an ongoing vital force in queer theory and affect theory; it can help us build a more positive world in the midst of the bleak contemporary moment. Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Ramzi Fawaz, Denis Flannery, Jane Gallop, Jonathan Goldberg, Meridith Trade Review“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” -- Christina Crosby, author of * A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain *"This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. M. Jarrett * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant 1 Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz 6 Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick 34 1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman 37 2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler 63 3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards 72 4. In / Denis Flannery 92 5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop 113 6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg 121 7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse 132 8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon 141 9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz 152 10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon 166 11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker 178 12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg 189 13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker 203 14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon 236 15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman 242 Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton 274 Acknowledgments 279 Bibliography 281 Contributors 295 Index 299

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Book SynopsisMichael K. Bourdaghs presents a radical reframing of the works of Natsume Sosekiwidely considered to be Japan's greatest modern novelistas critical and creative responses to the emergence of new forms of property ownership in nineteenth-century Japan.Trade Review“Michael K. Bourdaghs's A Fictional Commons provides a strikingly new approach to thinking about the fiction and theories of Natsume Sōseki as well as for thinking how literature as a practice gestures to something beyond the modern regime of private property. Literature, Bourdaghs demonstrates, is one of the sites where we imagine the return in a higher dimension of the commons, the gift, and primitive communism.” -- Karatani Kojin, author of * Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy *“Both erudite and innovative, A Fictional Commons brilliantly demonstrates how Natsume Sōseki, through his fiction and criticism, explored literature as a domain for imagining the alternatives to modern private property regime and the related conceptualization of modern personhood. It is a major contribution to Sōseki studies and modern Japanese literary studies. It also joins broader debates over the value of literature in the twenty-first century—how literature may inspire creative modes of sharing that traverse national, regional, and other boundaries dividing our troubled present.” -- Tomiko Yoda, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University"As more and more people question the extremes of capitalism, Bourdaghs’ study of Soseki adds a fascinating lens for further examining other works of literature. . . . In A Fictional Commons, Bourdaghs reveals Soseki’s sharp mind, ever wrestling with the most important sociological issue of his time. Through this book, Bourdagh also reminds us that the role of literature is to rethink what is possible — and thereby literally rewrite the world." -- Kris Kosaka * Japan Times *“[Bourdaghs] makes extensive use of Japanese and Western sources, both primary and secondary, drawing seamlessly on work in multiple languages. [A Fictional Commons] is extensively referenced and comes with an exhaustive list of bibliographic studies . . . which will be of immense help to both students and scholars interested in Sōseki, and in Meiji- and Taisho-era Japanese literature more broadly.” -- Gouranga Charan Pradhan * Japan Review *“Bourdaghs’s exploration of the question of property for Sōseki is broad, trenchant, and productive, and it drew connections for me that I would not have otherwise imagined.” -- Edward Mack * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsNote on Usage ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Owning up to Sōseki 1 1. Fables of Property: Nameless Cats, Trickster Badgers, Stray Sheep 13 2. House under a Shadow: Disowning the Psychology of Possessive Individualism in The Gate 51 3. Property and Sociological Knowledge: Sōseki and the Gift of Narrative 91 4. The Tragedy of the Market:Younger Brothers, Women, and Colonial Subjects in Kokoro 121 Conclusion. Who Owns Sōseki? Or, How Not to Belong in World Literature 147 Notes 177 Bibliography 205 Index 219

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Book SynopsisFocusing on his personal day to day experiences of the shelter-in-place period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life and the nature of thought under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation.Table of ContentsPreface ix March 20, 2020 3 Remark 1: The Path of the Goddess March 27, 2020 7 March 29, 2020 7 April 1, 2020 A.M. 8 Remark 2: The Pandemic and the Event April 1, 2020 P.M. 15 April 3, 2020 17 April 4, 2020 18 April 9, 2020 21 April 12, 2020 23 Remark 3: Self-precursion April 15, 2020 26 April 16, 2020 30 April 18, 2020 32 April 24, 2020 35 April 25, 2020 38 April 28, 2020 39 May 2, 2020 39 May 5, 2020 41 May 6, 2020 43 May 7, 2020 47 May 9, 2020 48 May 10, 2020 50 Remark 4: Fools and Free Spirits May 11, 2020 57 May 12, 2020 A.M. 59 May 12, 2020 P.M. 61 May 13, 2020 A.M. 62 May 13, 2020 P.M. 64 May 14, 2020 68 May 15, 2020 72 May 16, 2020 A.M. 73 May 16, 2020 P.M. 78 May 17, 2020 84 May 18, 2020 88 May 19, 2020 88 Remark 5: The Fourth Position May 20, 2020 A.M. 98 Remark 6: An Invitation to Social Death May 20, 2020 P.M. 106 Remark 7: Infracendence: Unpublished Fragments from Fernando Pessoa’s (Posthumous?) Milieu Notebook of Alberto Moreira, Heteronym Appendix 1. More Questions for Jorge Alemán: A Presentation for 17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, May 25, 2020 123 Appendix 2. From a Conversation with Jaime 127 Appendix 3. From a Conversation with Gerardo 131 Appendix 4. Alain Badiou's Age of the Poets 139 Notes 165 Bibliography 183 Index 189

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Book SynopsisPetrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusglobal capitalism's latest mutationto develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.Trade Review"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." -- Wenqing Kang * Modern Chinese Literature And Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1 Part I: Theory 1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21 2. The Specter of Materialism 52 Part II: History 3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81 4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104 5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 195 Index

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange objectstrange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walkers Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common objectegg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewWalker teaches creative writing at a Northern Arizona University, and I imagine she is very good at it. Her interest in other people and their lives holds the book together. Her specific remit, the egg, provides her with a good deal of scope and she enthusiastically takes her readers along for the ride … Much within the lovely covers is delightful. * FoodAnthropology *This is the eggiest book ever, and the egg is everything. Egg is forthright, joyful, mournful and charming, as personal and expansive as the good great egg. * Lucy Corin, Program Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA, and author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (2013) *Egg is Walker’s third book of nonfiction, and it is just one book from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series… Like its cohorts, Egg offers an unusual lens for observing everyday objects. In this book of thirty short essays, Walker combines equal parts personal narrative, natural history, and cookbook—adding a pinch of cultural history and a dash of mythology—to whip up something that defies genre and is especially palpable in today’s divisive political climate wherein both reproductive rights and the environment are under attack … Walker surveys the depths of virginity and motherhood, global warming and habitat destruction, cooking and art. And she does so with impeccable precision. * Slashnburn *“[A] deeply engrossing and very accessible work of philosophy, a quasi-religious contemplation of someone else’s daily striving possessed of both poetic and factual merit. … Walker’s Egg is the product of her own amalgamation of eggsperiences, refracted through her own poetic syntactical sense and broader environmental interests. … Egg purports to be about eggs, but in the end, eggs are really about Nicole Walker and Walker is really about us. In reading an object meditation such as this, the reader has to engage on several increasingly difficult levels. First, we accept Walker’s fragments for whatever they are, that then evokes our own experiences with eggs, we go on to approach Walker’s text comparatively both for parallels in our experiences and for contrasts in our resultant ideas about eggs. Then, if all has gone according to plan, and we can confidently say that Egg has turned out to be a good book, we can begin to carry a heightened awareness for eggs in our lives in order to collect additional experiences with eggs that will then fuel our further personal growth in this metaphorical area. When you pay mind to an object this deeply, it’s a type of mission work. * PopMatters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Dear Egg Why We Break the Things We Love the Most Rotten Eggs The Egg Came First Experiment with Eggs by Making a Hollandaise in the Time of Global Warming How to Cook a Planet Spoons The Glue That Holds Us Together All the Eggs in Israel All the Eggs in Ukraine All the Eggs in Korea All the Eggs in China Eggs in Utah Mohawk So Many Eggs, One Small Basket Which Came First? Chicken Porn Can Help You Make Up Your Mind About Eggs Breaking a Few Eggs Blue Planet, Blue Omelet Humpty Dumpty, Revised Do Eggs Bring Skunks? Would You Eat a Red Speckled Egg? The Incredible, Edible Egg What Is a Cloaca? A Million Year Old Egg A Lot of Pressure on One Egg Sidewalk Cooking Eggs A Science Fair Every Year The Sex Lives of Fish The Present Was an Egg Laid by the Past That Had the Future Inside Its Shell—Zora Neale Hurston Recipe for an Already-Cracked Egg

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fiberglass antennas, cell towers raise up high into the air the communications equipment that channels our calls, texts, and downloads. For security reasons, their locations are never advertised. But it's our romantic notions of connectivity that hide them in plain sight. We want the network to be invisible, ethereal, and ubiquitous. The cell tower stands as a challenge to these desires. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewAs Steven E. Jones observes, we imagine that our mobile devices connect us to each other, and to a certain version of the world, in a manner that’s invisible and ethereal. But in fact, this illusion depends on a great multiplicity of 200-foot-tall structures that we see, or decline to see, wherever we go: cell towers. Briskly deconstructing these enablers of our digital lives as physical objects, and as quasi-magical connectors of the immaterial, Jones reveals them as secret object-icons of our time. Once you’ve read this, you won’t be able to stop seeing--and thinking about--the cell phone tower. * Rob Walker, author of The Art of Noticing (2019) *Table of Contents1. Cellspotting 2. Invisible waves 3. Camouflage 4. Ethereal connections 5. Design 6. Coverage 7. On Earth List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA WIRED 2020 Book of the YearObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothing''s bulletproof, the salesman said. The thing''s only bullet resistant. The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on assignment. He was travelling into Mosul, Iraq, when he realized that the idea of a bulletproof vest is more effective than the vest itself. From its very inception, poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, or Kevlar, was meant for tires. Its humble roots and mundane applications are often lost, as it is now synonymous with body armor, war zones, and domestic terrorism. What Rosen learned through intimate use of his vest was that it acts as a metaphor for all the precautions we take toward digital, physical, and social security. Bulletproof Vest is at once an introspective journey into the properties and precisions of a bulleTrade ReviewIn Bulletproof Vest, Rosen explores the significance of this war zone accessory with compelling nuance and knowledge of military history. Perhaps more impressive, though, is his willingness to explore the relationship between military protective gear and human vulnerability. * LA Review of Books *For the author, a lifelong sufferer of anxiety, the idea of a bulletproof vest (or a ‘bullet resistant’ one, as the salesman reminded him) suggested a potent metaphor for humanity’s relationship to violence, security, and mortality. His book mixes his own wartime accounts from Iraq and Syria with discussions of anxiety and the history of body armor; along the way, Rosen seeks to describe just what he was trying to banish when he put on his vest. The author’s prose alternates between being confessional and informative … Over the course of this reliably tense book, Rosen does a wonderful job of emphasizing the destructive power of warfare by framing his thoughts around account of being a noncombatant in a war zone. Overall, it’s a quick read but one with great impact, as it asks its audience not only to think about protective vests, but also about the soft, vulnerable things that they’re meant to protect. A compelling, thoughtful dive into the pursuit of being bulletproof. * Kirkus Reviews *Kenneth Rosen, war-reporter, journalist, abyss-looker, intuiter of the human spirit, presents the materials of war, stitches them together in a fascinating story that shows no matter how tight and polymeric the jacket, the true dangers of war are the mental wounds that go straight to your head. His insights into war do what they can to protect us from those wounds--but like the vest, offer an imperfect protection. Thankfully, Kenneth’s words are near perfect and perfectly moving. * Nicole Walker, Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, USA, and author of Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) *A tense but beautifully written frontlines study of war in the fashion of Michael Herr's Vietnam era book 'Dispatches.' * The Day (Conn.) *Table of ContentsPreface: Notes from My Suicide 1. Every Day Was Striking 2. A Thin Metal Sheet 3. Enjoy the War 4. Wholly Aromatic Carbocylic Polycarbonamide Fiber Having Orientation Angle of Less Than About 45 Degrees 5. PPE for Your Thoughts? 6. Support Your Local War Correspondent 7. A Cult of Anxiety 8. Safety is a Cabin in the Woods References Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisPsychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves.Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid psychological mindset largely responsible for the climate crisis. People in this mindset believe that they are entitled to have the lion's share and that they can rearrange' reality with magical omnipotent thinking whenever reality limits these felt entitlements.While this book''s subject is grim, its tone is reflective, ironic, light and at times humorous. It is free of jargon, and full of examples from history, culture, literature, poetry, everyday life and the author's experience as a psychoanalyst, and a professional life that has been dedicated to helping people to face difficult truths.Trade ReviewAmong the lessons Weintrobe’s book holds for climate scientists is that human vulnerability to climate change cannot be measured on a simple quantitative scale running from the most vulnerable populations to the most resilient. To be sure, the risks of climate change are distributed highly unevenly, with poor, marginalized communities likely to suffer the worst effects. Yet, for the privileged readers to whom Weintrobe addresses this book, vulnerability is not the opposite of resilience. Rather, feeling vulnerable is the first step toward building sustainable relationships. * Science *Weintrobe brilliantly weaves together insights from psychology, economics and environmental science. Her book offers a vital critique of neoliberal orthodoxies and the social, psychological and ecological toll that they have exacted. But she also charts a way forward, one that begins by regenerating our embattled cultures of care. This book is a tour de force. * Rob Nixon, Barron Family Professor of Environment and Humanities, Princeton University, USA *The distinction between the caring and uncaring parts of the human psyche was, for me, a new and powerful formulation – one that sheds much light on the mess we find ourselves in and perhaps offers some routes out! * Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? *In his first speech as U.S. President-Elect, Joe Biden said: “Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail.” His words are a fitting endorsement of Sally Weintrobe’s new book Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. In it she peels back the lid on human exceptionalism and our ability to "uncare." She argues convincingly that these elemental features of the dominant neoliberal economic and political creed lie at the heart of the climate crisis. Unless and until we reassert our fundamentally caring nature, our ability to recognise planetary limits and retain control of our climatic destiny will continue to slip away. The book provides a powerful case that although technological solutions driven from within free markets will help to lessen the climate crisis, they will not be enough. Human behaviour will need to change also. * Chris Rapley, CBE, Professor of Climate Science, University College London, UK *Sally Weintrobe uses her psychoanalytic mind and her sociocultural experience to create a brilliant presentation of intersecting historical, political, economic and psychological determinants of the climate crisis. She uses personal, clinical, literary, biblical, sociological, economic, and scientific information and metaphors to bring alive the overwhelming realities of ecocide and denialism. Her detailed elaboration of neoliberal exceptionalism and the current Western culture of uncare sets what she terms ‘the bubble of disavowal’ in bold context. Her own care for the safety of the planet – and its human and animal inhabitants – permeates the aspect of this book that inspires the reader to face the crisis and become an agent of change. * Harriet L. Wolfe, M.D., President-elect, International Psychoanalytical Association, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, USA *The problem of climate change has, for a generation, produced nothing approaching an adequate response – particularly among those in the wealthy west, many of whom see themselves as triumphalist technocrats capable of fixing anything at all. In her brilliant, dizzyingly insightful book, Sally Weintrobe explains why: a political culture that teaches those in the global north that they are not just entitled to a stable and prosperous world but entitled, as well, to live as though they had no responsibility for preserving it, indeed entitled to guiltlessness and ignorance at once. As she writes, neoliberalism is an ideology of power, but it is built through psychological appeals we have tragically come to accept as "reality." We are, she writes, living in Wonderland – though not for long. * David Wallace-Wells, editor-at-large of New York Magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth *Weintrobe’s book holds invaluable insights for people of all ages and masterfully breaks down academic jargon for a popular audience. * Harvard Political Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction EXCEPTIONALISM: THE PSYCHOLOGY EXPLAINED 1. The conflicted self 2. The ordinary exception (contained by care) 3. The Exception (in charge and unbound) EXCEPTIONALISM’S RISE TO POWER IN THE NEOLIBERAL AGE 4. Neoliberal Exceptionalism 5. Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan 6. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged 7. Globalizing the neoliberal way 8. Neoliberals’ rise to power 9. The earth seen as a globe 10. Implementing neoliberal economic policy WHAT CONTAINS EXCEPTIONALISM 11. Frameworks of care 12. The power of love THE CULTURE OF UNCARE 13. Culture and the birth of consumerism 14. Neoliberalism’s culture of uncare HOW THIS CULTURE OPERATES 15. New Speak 16. The World Bank using New Speak 17. Mass media 18. Promoting denial 19. Advertising 20. Political framing 21. Blocking tears 22. Infantilizing people WE COLLUDE 23. On collusion EXCEPTIONALISM GROWS FRAUD BUBBLES 24. Case studies: Enron and fund managers 25. The corporation 26. Social groups 27. Trickledown THE NEW CARING IMAGINATION TODAY 28. Paradigm shift 29. Frameworks of care for a sustainable world 30. Living on Planet Earth not Planet La La THE CLIMATE BUBBLE IS BURSTING 31. The damage 32. Living with our feelings about the climate crisis ‘THE CRAZY’: EXCEPTIONALISM RUNS AMOK 33. ‘The crazy’ in politics 34. Noah’s Arkism 21st-century style 35. We are gods 36. The ‘all or nothing-ness’ of having to be ideal 37. Bad leaders drive ‘the crazy’ 38. The problem of guilt 39. Good leaders Conclusion Acknowledgements References Index

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