Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation of bodies, artefacts, discourses, and ideas, and aims to investigate how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.
Comparative Practices in Britain''s Long Eighteenth CenturySeiten 7 - 24 Marcus Hartner, Nadine Böhm-Schnitker Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Creation of the English Nation: Alfred the Great as Role ModelSeiten 25 - 44 Julia Wiedemann Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Circulating Library, the Novel, and Implicit Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century England: Assembling ''Middle-Class'' LiterarinessSeiten 45 - 76 Ralf Schneider Download Kapitel (PDF)
Comparing Conduct: English Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century and the Formation of Ideals of Social BehaviourSeiten 77 - 104 Ralf Schneider, Marcus Hartner Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Complexity of Narrative Comparisons in Wollstonecraft''s Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman and Lennox''s The Female QuixoteSeiten 105 - 124 Anne Lappert Download Kapitel (PDF)
"''tis by Comparison we can Judge and Chuse [sic!]": Incomparable OroonokoSeiten 125 - 148 Monika Class Download Kapitel (PDF)
Articulating Differences: Practices of Comparing in British Travel Writing of the Long Eighteenth CenturySeiten 149 - 178 Nadine Böhm-Schnitker Download Kapitel (PDF)
Oceans of Non-Relation: Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah MoreSeiten 179 - 202 Caroline Koegler Download Kapitel (PDF)
Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century Grammars of EnglishSeiten 203 - 222 Göran Wolf Download Kapitel (PDF)
Authors and EditorsSeiten 223 - 226 Marcus Hartner, Nadine Böhm-Schnitker Download Kapitel (PDF)
