Description
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English provides an interdisciplinary overview of the vibrant connections between literature, politics, and the political.
Featuring contributions from 44 scholars across a variety of disciplines, the collection is divided into five parts: Connecting Literature and Politics; Constituting the Polis; Periods and Histories; Media, Genre, and Techne; and Spaces. Organized around familiar conceptssuch as humans, animals, workers, empires, nations, and statesrather than theoretical schools, it will help readers to understand the ways in which literature affects our understanding of who is capable of political action, who has been included in and excluded from politics, and how different spaces are imagined to be political. It also offers a series of engagements with key moments in literary and political history from 1066 to the present in order to assess and reassess the utility of conventional modes of periodization.
Table of Contents
Introduction, PART I Connecting Literature and Politics, 1. Aesthetics and Affect, 2. Forms, 3. Realism and Representation, 4. Symptoms, 5. Reforms and Revolutions, 6. Rights Catalogue, 7. Empires, Decolonization, and the Canon, PART II Constituting the Polis, 8. Citizenship and Enslavement, 9. Humans and Posthumans, 10. Animals, 11. Workers, 12. Debtors, 13. Refugees, 14. Nations and States, PART III Periods and Histories, 15. On or about 1066, 16. On or about 1400, 17. On or about 1616, 18. On or about 1789, 19. On or about 1885, 20. On or about 1914, 21. On or about 1945, 22. On or about 1989, 23. On or about Now, PART IV Media, Genre, Techne, 24. Sound and Print, 25. Photography, Literature, and Time 26. Art, Propaganda, and Truth, 27. Criticism, 28. Digital Platforms, 29. Translation, 30. Comics, PART V Spaces, 31. Archives, 32. Homes, 33. Cities, 34. Streets and Highways, 35. Nature, 36. Oceans, 37. Borders, 38, Planets, 39. Utopia, 40. Classrooms, Index
