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Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895
eBook - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
ISBN/EAN: 9783031266409
Umbreit-Nr.: 8887169
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 2.19 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 20.03.2023
Auflage: 1/2023
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Format: PDF
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- Zusatztext
- This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of the realist novel in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through three case studies, it argues for human tissue as a conceptual tool for reading that brings together biology, literature and questions of layering. This new approach is shown to be especially salient to the Victorian period, when the application of tissue to biology first emerges. The book is distinctive in bringing together theoretical concerns around realism and the Anthropocene two major topics in literary criticism and presenting a new methodology to approach this conjunction, demonstrated through original readings of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, and Emile Zola and two English-language writers he influenced (George Moore and Vernon Lee).<p></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Ben Moore</b> is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. <p></p>