1st Edition
The British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essay from 1701 to 2021 Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts
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
Biography
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.
