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"British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830" edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon
"British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830" edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon
January 13, 2023
Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for granted, but nonetheless were—as we are today—both attracted to and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep history of such ambivalence, examining technology’s influence on Enlightenment British literature, as well as the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology. Offering a counterbalance to the abundance of studies on literature and science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, this volume’s focus encompasses approaches to literary history that help us understand technologies like the steam engine and the telegraph along with representations of technology in literature such as the “political machine.” Read more.
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"Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture" by Dawn Duke
"Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture" by Dawn Duke
January 13, 2023
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. Read more.
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"The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century" by Heidi Schlipphacke
"The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century" by Heidi Schlipphacke
January 13, 2023
The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of “family plots” in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Read more.
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"Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives" by Amy Garnai
"Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives" by Amy Garnai
January 13, 2023
A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. Read more.
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