1st Edition
Understanding Public Debates What Literary Studies Can Do
Introduction
1. The History of Ideas and the Long Shadow of Plato: Milton, Shelley and Problems of Liberty and Liberalism
2. Complicating the ‘Culture Wars’: Re-reading The Human Stain
3. America the Beautiful? Neil Young’s Explorations of Racism, Genocide and the Foundations of ‘America’
4. Edward Young’s Abysmal ‘Sea Odes’: Mercantilism, Free Trade and Globalization
5. Cli-fi Novels as Models of and for Climate Debates
6. Understanding Conflicts through Conflict Narratives: Narrative Path Dependencies and the Chances for Compromise
By Way of Conclusion: Ten Theses
Biography
Jens Martin Gurr has been Full Professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, since 2007. He is the author or coauthor of five monographs, including Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City (2021) and (with Julia Hoydis and Roman Bartosch) Climate Change Literacy (2023).
