This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006), Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (2009), Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction (2013), and The Value of the Novel (2015). He has edited a number of collections, including Thinking Poetry (edited with Peter Nicholls, 2013) and Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, and an edition of Beckett's novel Malone Dies. He is co-editor, with Bryan Cheyette, of volume 7 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1980-2018 (2019), and of the bestselling 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die (2012). He is also the editor of Textual Practice, and the series editor of Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction. Mimesis and prosthesis; Part I. The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish: 1. Fiction, the body and the state; Part II. The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe: 2. Economies of scale from Aphra Behn to Sarah Scott; 3. Organic aesthetics from Richardson to Goethe; Part III. The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker: 4. The dead hand: realism and biomaterial in the nineteenth-century novel; 5. Strange affinity: Gothic prosthetics from Shelley to Stoker; Part IV. The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett: 6. A duplication of consciousness: realism, modernism and prosthetic self-fashioning; 7. All twined together: prosthetic modernism from Proust to Beckett; Part V. The Posthuman Body: From Orwell to Atwood: 8. Prosthetics and simulacra: the postmodern novel; 9. Prosthetic worlds in the twenty-first-century novel.
Introduction. Mimesis and prosthesis; Part I. The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish: 1. Fiction, the body and the state; Part II. The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe: 2. Economies of scale from Aphra Behn to Sarah Scott; 3. Organic aesthetics from Richardson to Goethe; Part III. The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker: 4. The dead hand: realism and biomaterial in the nineteenth-century novel; 5. Strange affinity: Gothic prosthetics from Shelley to Stoker; Part IV. The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett: 6. A duplication of consciousness: realism, modernism and prosthetic self-fashioning; 7. All twined together: prosthetic modernism from Proust to Beckett; Part V. The Posthuman Body: From Orwell to Atwood: 8. Prosthetics and simulacra: the postmodern novel; 9. Prosthetic worlds in the twenty-first-century novel.
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