The socio-literary imaginary in 19th and 20th century Britain : Victorian and Edwardian inflections

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The socio-literary imaginary in 19th and 20th century Britain : Victorian and Edwardian inflections

edited by Maria K. Bachman and Albert D. Pionke

(Among the Victorians and modernists)

Routledge, 2020

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-233) and index

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内容説明

At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary studies and sociology in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. During the ongoing emergence of what Thomas Carlyle, in "Signs of the Times" (1829), pejoratively labeled a new "Mechanical Age," Britain's robust tradition of social thought was transformed by professionalization, institutionalization, and the birth of modern disciplinary fields. Writers and thinkers most committed to an approach grounded in empirical data and inductive reasoning, such as Harriet Martineau and John Stuart Mill, positioned themselves in relation to French positivist Auguste Comte's recent neologism "la sociologie." Some Victorian and Edwardian novelists, George Eliot and John Galsworthy among them, became enthusiastic adopters of early sociological theory; others, including Charles Dickens and Ford Madox Ford, more idiosyncratically both complemented and competed with the "systems of society" proposed by their social scientific contemporaries. Chronologically bound within the period from the 1830s through the 1920s, this volume expansively reconstructs their expansive if never collective efforts. Individual essays focus on Comte, Dickens, Eliot, Ford, and Galsworthy, as well as Friedrich Engels, Elizabeth Gaskell, G. H. Lewes, Virginia Woolf, and others. The volume's introduction locates these author-specific contributions in the context of both the international intellectual history of sociology in Britain through the First World War and the interanimating intersections of sociological and literary theory from the work of Hippolyte Taine in the 1860s through the successive linguistic and digital turns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

目次

Introduction Maria K. Bachman and Albert D. Pionke Mill, Comte, and the Literature of Sociological Critique Albert D. Pionke Harriet Martineau, Sociological Foremother Deborah Anna Logan "The Shortest Way Out of Manchester": Literary Sociology, Sociological Literature, and the Substance Abuse Question Carol Margaret Davison Harriet Martineau and the Narrative Transmission of Social Knowledge Rachel Stern World Making: Character as Goffmanian Co-Presence in The Pickwick Papers and Our Mutual Friend Kristen Starkowski Goffman Goes to Middlemarch Audrey Jaffe Character and Life: Sociological Method in George Eliot's Fiction Scott Thompson Keeping Up Appearances: Criminality, Durkheim, and the Case of A.J. Raffles, Gentleman-Thief Maria K. Bachman The Persistence of Social Groups: Georg Simmel and John Galsworthy Rosetta Young "A more emotional, a more keenly analytical picture": Impressionism, Naturalism, and Sociology in Ford Madox Ford Adam Parkes

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB29386749
  • ISBN
    • 9780367371319
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    ix, 237 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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