02675oam 2200565 450 991080954370332120230630000518.01-5036-2782-910.1515/9781503627826(CKB)4100000011775078(MiAaPQ)EBC6483824(DE-B1597)579780(DE-B1597)9781503627826(OCoLC)1233022423(EXLCZ)99410000001177507820210709d2021 uy 0engurcn#---|||||txtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierThe afterlife of enclosure British realism, character, and the commons /Carolyn J. LesjakStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2021]©20211 online resourceIncludes bibliographical references and index.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"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bold challenge at the heart of this study is to renew our understanding of realist literature, not as stale, outdated, or even dead, but as witness to the "slow violence" of material and environmental dispossession and as bearer of radical, utopian energies.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"--Provided by publisher.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismRealism in literaturecharacter.cosmopolitanism.enclosure.environmental humanities.geopolitical aesthetic.political ecology.realism.slow violence.the commons.English fictionHistory and criticism.Realism in literature.823.809Lesjak Carolyn J.1599898MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910809543703321The afterlife of enclosure3922773UNINA