Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century

Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century
ISBN-10
3839457998
ISBN-13
9783839457993
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
226
Language
English
Published
2022-01-31
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Authors
Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Marcus Hartner

Description

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.

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