Sarah Louise Macmillen

Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory

Stories That Are Telling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building on aesthetic, sociological, and literary theories, the author focuses on a selection of novelists from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and their contribution to the sociological imagination. Throughout the text, the book considers these "stories that are telling" in light of social issues today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781793628077
• ISBN-10: 1793628076
• Artikelnr.: 68537418

Autorenporträt

Sarah Louise MacMillen is associate professor of sociology and director of the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution Minor Program at Duquesne University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction-Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory
Chapter Two: New England Shadows: Hawthorne, Faust, and the American
Spiritual Character
Chapter Three: Moby-Dick as Modern Epic: "Symphony" in a Broken Ontology
Chapter Four: Literary Metanoia and the Sociological Imagination in Joseph
Conrad: Colonialism and Western Idealism
Chapter Five: Women and Men: the Tragicomic
Chapter Six: Suspending Modernity: Gender and History in Virginia Woolf's
Orlando
Chapter Seven: The Absurd Christian and the Sociological Imagination of
Dostoevsky
Chapter Eight: Conclusion-Stories in the Dawn of Capitalism: Crisis and
Narrative in Boccaccio's Decameron
Bibliography