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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300017603321

Autore

Gagnier Regenia

Titolo

Literatures of Liberalization : Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century / / by Regenia Gagnier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319984193

3319984195

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

New Comparisons in World Literature, , 2634-6109

Disciplina

809.933552

Soggetti

Literature

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Literature, Modern - 20th century

World Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The Transcultural Transformation of a Field -- 2. Global Circulation and Some Problems in Liberalism, Liberalization, and Neoliberalism -- 3. Dialogical Imaginations: European Ideas of Plasticity, Freedom and Choice in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 4. Trollope's Modernity: Speed-up, Stress, and Resentment in the Public Sphere -- 5. The Global Circulation of Charles Dickens's Novels -- 6. Global Literatures of Decadence -- 7. Crossed Histories: Social Formations in Friction -- 8. Coda on Processes of Sex, Gender and Desire in the Anthropocene. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact rather than national boundaries, the author draws attention to the global scope of literatures and geopolitical commodities as actants in world affairs, as in processes of liberalization, democratization, and trade, but also to the distinctiveness of each local environment at its moments of



transculturation. Based in extensive experience in collaborative, multilingual, interdisciplinary networks, the book synthesizes existing theoretical scholarship, provides original case studies of world-historical Victorian and modern writers, and articulates a new interdisciplinary methodology for literary studies in a global context. It will be of interest to Victorianists, modernists, comparatists, political theorists, translators, and scholars of world literatures, world ecology, and globalization. .