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The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English

Edited By Matthew Stratton Copyright 2023
    486 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    486 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English provides an interdisciplinary overview of the vibrant connections between literature, politics, and the political.

    Featuring contributions from 44 scholars across a variety of disciplines, the collection is divided into five parts: Connecting Literature and Politics; Constituting the Polis; Periods and Histories; Media, Genre, and Techne; and Spaces. Organized around familiar concepts—such as humans, animals, workers, empires, nations, and states—rather than theoretical schools, it will help readers to understand the ways in which literature affects our understanding of who is capable of political action, who has been included in and excluded from politics, and how different spaces are imagined to be political. It also offers a series of engagements with key moments in literary and political history from 1066 to the present in order to assess and reassess the utility of conventional modes of periodization.

    The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of literary studies, which will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions within broader contexts.

    List of Contributors

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    Matthew Stratton

    PART I Connecting Literature and Politics

    1. Aesthetics and Affect

      2. Tyler Bradway

    2. Forms

      3. Ingrid Nelson

    3. Realism and Representation

      4. Regina Martin

    4. Symptoms

      5. Benjamin Kohlmann

    5. Reforms and Revolutions

      6. John S. Garrison and Kyle Pivetti

    6. Rights Catalogue

      7. Juno Jill Richards

    7. Empires, Decolonization, and the Canon

      8. Maryam Wasif Khan

      PART II Constituting the Polis

    8. Citizenship and Enslavement

      9. Elizabeth J. West

    9. Humans and Posthumans

      10. Jennifer Rhee

    10. Animals

      11. Mario Ortiz-Robles

    11. Workers

      12. Benjamin Balthaser

    12. Debtors

      13. Robin Truth Goodman

    13. Refugees

      14. Hadji Bakara

    14. Nations and States

      15. Jessie Reeder

      PART III Periods and Histories

    15. On or about 1066

      16. Mary Rambaran-Olm

    16. On or about 1400

      17. Susan Nakley

    17. On or about 1616

      18. Urvashi Chakravarti

    18. On or about 1789

      19. John Owen Havard

    19. On or about 1885

      20. Padma Rangarajan

    20. On or about 1914

      21. Tanya Agathocleous

    21. On or about 1945

      22. Claire Seiler

    22. On or about 1989

      23. Ian Afflerbach

    23. On or about Now

      24. Rachel Greenwald Smith

      PART IV Media, Genre, Techne

    24. Sound and Print

      25. Anthony Reed

    25. Photography

      26. Emily Hyde

    26. Art, Propaganda and Truth

      27. Melissa Dinsman

    27. Criticism

      28. Thom Dancer

    28. Digital Platforms

      29. J.D. Schnepf

    29. Translation

      30. Roland Végső

    30. Comics

      31. Daniel Worden

      PART V Spaces

    31. Archives

      32. Megan Ward

    32. Homes

      33. Natalie Pollard

    33. Cities

      34. Ameeth Vijay

    34. Streets and Highways

      35. Sam Weselowski and Myka Tucker-Abramson 

    35. Nature

      36. Steven Swarbrick

    36. Oceans

      37. Alison Maas

    37. Borders

      38. Anne Mai Yee Jansen

    38. Planets

      39. Gerry Canavan

    39. Utopia

      40. Deanna K. Kreisel

    40. Classrooms

              Laura Heffernan and Rachel Sagner Buurma

    Index

    Biography

    Matthew Stratton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of The Politics of Irony in American Modernism (2014).

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