Ute Berns

Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Produktbeschreibung

This study offers an incisive new reading of the romantic playwright Thomas Lovell (1803-1849) Beddoes's work as shaped by the contemporary discourses of radical politics, life science, and gender. Reappraising his opus magnum Death's Jest Book in a context powerfully defined by both English and German romantic culture, this study unveils Beddoes's complex vision of history before the backdrop of the writer's fascination both with Early Modern culture and with proto-modernist forms of aesthetic experimentation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781611493672
• ISBN-10: 1611493676
• Artikelnr.: 33946685

Autorenporträt

Ute Berns is professor of English literature at the University of Hamburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Discursive and Tropological
Preliminaries 1. Discursive Horizons in Beddoes's Letters 2. Visual
Figuration and Performativity in Death's Jest-Book Part 2: The Politics of
Revolutionary Bonapartism 3. The Republican Promise of Revolutionary
Bonapartism 4. Roman Ideals in "Unroman Times" 5. Caesarist Visions of
History Part 3: The Radical Politics of Friendship 6. Friendship and
Fraternity in Crisis 7. Friendship(-)Haunting Sovereignty 8. Re-signifying
the Friend Part 4: History and the Sciences of Life 9. The Discourse of
"Life" in "Squats on a Toad-Stool" 10. Life Science, Natural History and
Politics in Death's Jest-Book Part 5: Towards a New Theater 11. Performing
Genres and the Uses of Illegitimacy Bibliography