03455nam 2200745 a 450 991045249830332120200520144314.00-8232-6106-90-8232-5518-20-8232-5516-60-8232-5517-410.1515/9780823255177(CKB)2550000001123606(EBL)3239840(SSID)ssj0000980801(PQKBManifestationID)11547056(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980801(PQKBWorkID)10959672(PQKB)11681982(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292585(MiAaPQ)EBC3239840(OCoLC)867740049(MdBmJHUP)muse27572(DE-B1597)555373(DE-B1597)9780823255177(MiAaPQ)EBC1426706(Au-PeEL)EBL3239840(CaPaEBR)ebr10747395(CaONFJC)MIL525323(OCoLC)859159614(OCoLC)1154983327(Au-PeEL)EBL1426706(OCoLC)861538566(EXLCZ)99255000000112360620130409d2014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrCommon things[electronic resource] romance and the aesthetics of belonging in Atlantic modernity /James D. Lilley1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20141 online resource (250 p.)CommonalitiesCommonalitiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8232-5515-8 1-299-94072-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Common Things -- 1. GENRE -- 2. FEELING -- 3. PROPERTY/PERSONHOOD -- 4. EVENT/HIATUS -- 5. NO THING IN COMMON -- NOTES -- INDEX What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced—and were influenced by—emerging modern systems of community.Drawing on the work of Washington Irving, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Charles Brockden Brown, the book shows how romance promotes a distinctive aesthetics of belonging—a mode of being in common tied to new qualities of the singular. Each chapter focuses on one of these common things—the stain of race, the “property” of personhood, ruined feelings, the genre of a text, and the event of history—and examines how these peculiar qualities work to sustain the coherence of our modern common places. In the work of Horace Walpole and Edgar Allan Poe, the book further uncovers an important— and never more timely—alternative aesthetic practice that reimagines community as an open and fugitive process rather than as a collection of common things.Commonalities.LiteraturePhilosophyHistoryElectronic books.LiteraturePhilosophyHistory.801Lilley James D(James David),1971-1049243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452498303321Common things2478073UNINA