Natalie Roxburgh

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Browning, Eliot, Wilde

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides New Formalist readings of three canonical authors by historizing the politics of disinterestedness in the 19th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765134986
• Artikelnr.: 71894318

Autorenporträt

Natalie Roxburgh is Senior Lecturer of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is author of Representing Public Credit: Credible Commitment, Fiction, and the Rise of the Financial Subject (2016) and co-editor of Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Academic Ideal to Literary-Formal Affordance
Part One: Situating Disinterestedness
1. Disinterestedness and Form: The Mechanisms of Science and Political
Economy
2. Disinterestedness and the Politics of Aesthetic Autonomy
Part Two: Representing Disinterestedness
3. Disinterestedness and the Form of Self-Interest: Robert Browning
4. Disinterestedness and the Form of Character: George Eliot
5. Disinterestedness and the Form of Influence: Oscar Wilde
Conclusion: The Problem of Disinterestedness
Works Cited
Index