Populating the Novel - Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life Steinlight EmilyPevná vazba
Populating the Novel - Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life Steinlight EmilyPevná vazba From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction,…
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Populating the Novel - Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life Steinlight EmilyPevná vazba
From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics.In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought.