The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons Lesjak Carolyn J.
The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons Lesjak Carolyn J. The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of…
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The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons Lesjak Carolyn J.
The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. These writers reinvented a commons committed to the collective nature of the social world. The Afterlife of Enclosure examines three canonical British writers-Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy-as narrators of this history, the long duration and diffuse effects of which required new literary forms to capture the lived experience of enclosure and its aftermath.This study boldly reconceives the realist novel, not as an outdated artifact, but as witness to the material and environmental dispossession of enclosure-and bearer of utopian energies.
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