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Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century
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Abstract
Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practic... view more
Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation of bodies, artefacts, discourses, and ideas, and aims to investigate how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.... view less
Keywords
literature; culture; novel; cultural history; literature (discipline); Great Britain; eighteenth century
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
Britain; Eighteenth-Century; British Studies; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
224 p.
Series
Culture & Theory, 258
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457993
ISSN
2702-8976
ISBN
978-3-8394-5799-3
Status
Published Version; reviewed