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Comparative Practices

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The contributors to this volume investigate the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as b...
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  • 27 February 2022
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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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Price: $55.00
Pages: 226
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 27 February 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837657999
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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»Designed and written as clearly as it is, this book will also find its way into teachingthe 18th century. «

Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (née Böhm) is a senior lecturer in English Studies: Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and serves as an interim professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is a former associate member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1288 »Practices of Comparing« funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and particularly interested in the power imbalances entailed in practices of comparing. Her further interests include contemporary literature and culture (e.g. neo-Victorian studies, BrexLit), the literary and cultural impact on perception, as well as cultural responses to ecological concerns such as climate change.
Marcus Hartner is a senior lecturer in English studies at Bielefeld University. He is an associate member and former principal investigator of the Collaborative Research Centre 1288 »Practices of Comparing« funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His main fields of research encompass the study of narrative and the intersection of race, gender, and class in early modern literature and culture. Among his further research interests are the study of migration literature, maritime humanities, and Anglo-Muslim relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Comparative Practices in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century 7
The Creation of the English Nation: Alfred the Great as Role Model 25
The Circulating Library, the Novel, and Implicit Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century England: Assembling 'Middle-Class' Literariness 45
Comparing Conduct: English Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century and the Formation of Ideals of Social Behaviour 77
The Complexity of Narrative Comparisons in Wollstonecraft's Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman and Lennox's The Female Quixote 105
"'tis by Comparison we can Judge and Chuse [sic!]": Incomparable Oroonoko 125
Articulating Differences: Practices of Comparing in British Travel Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century 149
Oceans of Non-Relation: Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More 179
Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century Grammars of English 203
Authors and Editors 223