Comparative Practices – Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain′s Long Eighteenth Century

Author:   Marcus Hartner ,  Nadine Böhm–schnitker
Publisher:   Transcript Verlag
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9783837657999


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   28 April 2023
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Author:   Marcus Hartner ,  Nadine Böhm–schnitker
Publisher:   Transcript Verlag
Imprint:   Transcript Verlag
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9783837657999


ISBN 10:   383765799
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   28 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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"Comparative Practices in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century; The Creation of the English Nation: Alfred the Great as Role Model; The Circulating Library, the Novel, and Implicit Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century England: Assembling 'Middle-Class' Literariness; Comparing Conduct: English Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century and the Formation of Ideals of Social Behaviour; The Complexity of Narrative Comparisons in Wollstonecraft's Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman and Lennox's The Female Quixote; ""'tis by Comparison we can Judge and Chuse [sic!]"": Incomparable Oroonoko; Articulating Differences: Practices of Comparing in British Travel Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century; Oceans of Non-Relation: Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More; Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century Grammars of English; Authors and Editors."

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»Designed and written as clearly as it is, this book will also find its way into teachingthe 18th century. « Helga Schwalm, Anglistik, 34/3 (2023)


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Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (née Böhm) is a senior lecturer in English Studies: Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and serves as an interim professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is a former associate member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1288 »Practices of Comparing« funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and particularly interested in the power imbalances entailed in practices of comparing. Her further interests include contemporary literature and culture (e.g. neo-Victorian studies, BrexLit), the literary and cultural impact on perception, as well as cultural responses to ecological concerns such as climate change. Marcus Hartner is a senior lecturer in English studies at Bielefeld University. He is an associate member and former principal investigator of the Collaborative Research Centre 1288 »Practices of Comparing« funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His main fields of research encompass the study of narrative and the intersection of race, gender, and class in early modern literature and culture. Among his further research interests are the study of migration literature, maritime humanities, and Anglo-Muslim relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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