LEADER 04640nam 22007215 450 001 9911035055503321 005 20251028120414.0 010 $a9783032026392 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-02639-2 035 $a(CKB)41826650800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32379774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32379774 035 $a(OCoLC)1547906675 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-02639-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941826650800041 100 $a20251028d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn/Visible Subjects $eLiterary Character and Narratives of Invisibility Since the Eighteenth Century /$fby Gero Guttzeit 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (0 pages) 225 1 $aLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies 311 08$a9783032026385 327 $aChapter 1 Introduc+on: Projec+ng Literary Invisibility Studies -- Chapter 2 ?Compound Invisible Objects?: The Inscrutability of Character and Rhetorical Ethos in Eighteenth-Century Novelis+c Narra+ves -- Chapter 3 Invisible Lovers: Triadic Character Constella+ons and Perspec+ves of Social Recogni+on in Roman+c Poetry and Prose -- Chapter 4 Invisible Monsters: Uncanny Whiteness and Inhuman -- Characters in Nineteenth-Century Transatlan+c Gothic -- 5 Invisible Author: Weak Character, Un-Visible People, and the Modernist Text -- 6 The In/Visible You: Unseeing Characters, Images of the Self, and Contemporary Surveillance Narra+ves -- 7 Conclusion: The Third Sphere of Invisibility. 330 $aIn/Visible Subjects explores the cultural fascination with invisible characters in literature. While the concept of social invisibility is common in contemporary political discourse, there exists no comprehensive analysis of the history of the cultural metaphor of invisibility. This book addresses this gap by tracing the literary evolution of invisibility in narratives from the eighteenth century to the present. The monograph examines literal and metaphorical invisibility in terms of both content and form, offering exemplary readings of literary texts by: eighteenth-century women novelists Eliza Haywood and Susanna Rowson; Romantic poets Anna Letitia Barbauld and John Keats; nineteenth-century writers of fantasy and science fiction, including James Forbes Dalton, Fitz-James O?Brien, and H.G. Wells; early and mid-twentieth-century authors such as G.K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison; and contemporary writers China Miéville and Jennifer Egan. In/Visible Subjects aims to establish a new foundation in literary studies for the emerging field of invisibility studies. It is of interest to students and scholars in literary and cultural studies working on narrative, literary character, subjectivity, and identity. Gero Guttzeit teaches English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany. He has held visiting professorships at Milwaukee, Freiburg, and Tübingen. His work is guided by theoretical interests in authorship, character, and rhetoric. He has published widely on nineteenth-century and contemporary literature and is the author of The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe: Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric (2017). 410 0$aLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aProse literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aNarrative Text and Prose 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aProse literature. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aNarrative Text and Prose. 676 $a809.03 700 $aGuttzeit$b Gero$01677775 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911035055503321 996 $aIn$94451257 997 $aUNINA