British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essay From 1701 to 2021 - Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts

Ranging from satire to sentimental writing, from religion to consumerism, from the French Revolution to Freud and from art to everyday life, the stylistic and thematic broadness of these thing-essays ultimately shows the multifarious connections between human life and materiality.

List of contents

Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay
Part I When Essays and Things Meet
Chapter 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential
Chapter 2 Things and How They Appear to Us
Chapter 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes
Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays
Chapter 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 5 Thing-Essays during Romanticism
Chapter 6 From Thing Culture to Commodity Culture: Victorian Thing-Essays
Chapter 7 "An Indian Summer": The Democratisation of Thing-Essays in the Interwar Period
Chapter 8 "Things Have a Way of Insinuating Themselves into All Human Lives": Thing-Essays from the Post-War-Period until Today
Coda: Things to Come
Appendix

About the author

Daniel Schneider is lecturer of English literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and freelance writer. His articles on literary representations of materiality and the literary essay have been published in international edited volumes and journals.

Summary

Ranging from satire to sentimental writing, from religion to consumerism, from the French Revolution to Freud and from art to everyday life, the stylistic and thematic broadness of these thing-essays ultimately shows the multifarious connections between human life and materiality.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Schneider, Schneider Daniel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032374055
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237405-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Ireland, British & Irish history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000