1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001106730403321

Autore

Mauche, Christopher W.

Titolo

Accretion-powered compact binarie : Proceedings of the 11th North American Workshop on Cataclysmic Variables and Low Mass X-Ray Binaries, Santa Fe, NM, October 9-13, 1989 / Edited by Cristopher W. Mauche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990

ISBN

0-521-40213-3

Disciplina

520

523

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

19-242

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809543703321

Autore

Lesjak Carolyn J.

Titolo

The afterlife of enclosure : British realism, character, and the commons / / Carolyn J. Lesjak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-2782-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

823.809

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Realism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : realism and the commons -- The persistence of the commons, the persistence of enclosure -- Dickensian types and a culture of the commons -- Eliot, cosmopolitanism, and the commons -- The typical and the tragic in Hardy's geopolitical commons -- Afterword : old and new enclosures

Sommario/riassunto

"The bold challenge at the heart of this study is to renew our understanding of realist literature, not as stale, outdated, or even dead, but as witness to the "slow violence" of material and environmental dispossession and as bearer of radical, utopian energies. The three realist writers who are the focus of this study-Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy-each trace a series of figurations of the common in the wake of the physical or literal commons' destruction, endowing both the historical trauma that was enclosure and the utopian spirit that the commons embodied with an afterlife, one that reveals a radical politics at the heart of these most canonical writers' works"--