Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 273709786
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-29817-3
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030298166
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Anticipatory Materialisms is co-authored by Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak and Becky Spence. The book emerged from the editors’ shared research on materiality across the long nineteenth century and furthers the interesting in literature and science, and materiality in Romantic, Victorian and Modernist literary studies. It is the first book to unearth nineteenth-century aesthetic and philosophic expressions of and reflections on material agency in ways that pre-empt recent new materialist philosophy. The collection contains essays by leading scholars (Emma Mason, Ralph Pite, Ruth Livesey) as well as PhD and early career scholars (Nick Dodd, Joanna Taylor, Luke Moffat). As Dakkak and Spence were PhD students through the editing process, Carruthers acted as the experienced scholar in the editing process. The Introduction was written in tandem, with equal weighting to each author. As such, Carruthers contributed to a third of the 7,000-word introduction and a single, 6,300-word chapter, “The Impatient Anticipations of our Reason”: Rough Sympathy in Friedrich Schiller and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre’. The chapter demonstrates how Schiller’s late eighteenth-century aesthetic theories present an understanding of the agency of the material world that pre-empts Jane Bennett’s theories of ‘vibrant matter’ and that influenced Charlotte Brontë’s depiction of human-world relations in ways as yet overlooked.
Terry Eagleton has written: ‘this absorbing collection of essays […] demonstrates the remarkable versatility of the concept of materialism, which can encompass tourism, the interaction of subjects and landscapes, the mind-body relation, the materiality of textual production, the materiality of listening and a good deal more.’ [Foreword]
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- Non-English
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