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McWeeny, Gage

 
9780199797202: The Comfort of Strangers: Social Life and Literary Form
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 019979720X ISBN 13 : 9780199797202
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2016

Synopsis

The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity. In a period of vast population increase in Britain, literary form imagined and licensed new ways of being with, and getting away from, other people. The generically diverse works that McWeeny calls "the literature of social density" illuminate surprising investments in ephemeral communities, anonymity, and social distance in the age of Victorian sympathy. With chapters on Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James, The Comfort of Strangers discovers a species of Victorian sociality not imagined under J.S. Mill's description in On Liberty of society as a crowd impinging upon the individual: one attuned to the relational possibilities offered by the impersonal intimacy of life among those unknown and the power of weak social ties.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gage McWeeny is Associate Professor of English at Williams College.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019979720X
ISBN 13 
9780199797202
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
240
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