Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Daniel Schneider
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.648kg
ISBN:  

9781032374048

ISBN 10:   1032374047
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   29 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay Part I When Essays and Things Meet Chapter 1 The Essay’s Democratic Potential Chapter 2 Things and How They Appear to Us Chapter 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays Chapter 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 5 Thing-Essays during Romanticism Chapter 6 From Thing Culture to Commodity Culture: Victorian Thing-Essays Chapter 7 ""An Indian Summer"": The Democratisation of Thing-Essays in the Interwar Period Chapter 8 ""Things Have a Way of Insinuating Themselves into All Human Lives"": Thing-Essays from the Post-War-Period until Today Coda: Things to Come Appendix"

Reviews

Author Information

Daniel Schneider is lecturer of English literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and freelance writer. His articles on literary representations of materiality and the literary essay have been published in international edited volumes and journals.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions