Ranging from satire to sentimental writing, from religion to consumerism, from the French Revolution to Freud and from art to everyday life, the stylistic and thematic broadness of these thing-essays ultimately shows the multifarious connections between human life and materiality.
Ranging from satire to sentimental writing, from religion to consumerism, from the French Revolution to Freud and from art to everyday life, the stylistic and thematic broadness of these thing-essays ultimately shows the multifarious connections between human life and materiality.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Schneider is lecturer of English literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and freelance writer. His articles on literary representations of materiality and the literary essay have been published in international edited volumes and journals.
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Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay Part I When Essays and Things Meet Chapter 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential Chapter 2 Things and How They Appear to Us Chapter 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays Chapter 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 5 Thing-Essays during Romanticism Chapter 6 From Thing Culture to Commodity Culture: Victorian Thing-Essays Chapter 7 "An Indian Summer": The Democratisation of Thing-Essays in the Interwar Period Chapter 8 "Things Have a Way of Insinuating Themselves into All Human Lives": Thing-Essays from the Post-War-Period until Today Coda: Things to Come Appendix
Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay
Part I When Essays and Things Meet
Chapter 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential
Chapter 2 Things and How They Appear to Us
Chapter 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes
Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays
Chapter 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 5 Thing-Essays during Romanticism
Chapter 6 From Thing Culture to Commodity Culture: Victorian Thing-Essays
Chapter 7 "An Indian Summer": The Democratisation of Thing-Essays in the Interwar Period
Chapter 8 "Things Have a Way of Insinuating Themselves into All Human Lives": Thing-Essays from the Post-War-Period until Today
Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay Part I When Essays and Things Meet Chapter 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential Chapter 2 Things and How They Appear to Us Chapter 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays Chapter 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 5 Thing-Essays during Romanticism Chapter 6 From Thing Culture to Commodity Culture: Victorian Thing-Essays Chapter 7 "An Indian Summer": The Democratisation of Thing-Essays in the Interwar Period Chapter 8 "Things Have a Way of Insinuating Themselves into All Human Lives": Thing-Essays from the Post-War-Period until Today Coda: Things to Come Appendix
Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay
Part I When Essays and Things Meet
Chapter 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential
Chapter 2 Things and How They Appear to Us
Chapter 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes
Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays
Chapter 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 5 Thing-Essays during Romanticism
Chapter 6 From Thing Culture to Commodity Culture: Victorian Thing-Essays
Chapter 7 "An Indian Summer": The Democratisation of Thing-Essays in the Interwar Period
Chapter 8 "Things Have a Way of Insinuating Themselves into All Human Lives": Thing-Essays from the Post-War-Period until Today
Coda: Things to Come
Appendix
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