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Affective Worlds
John Hughes
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Description for Affective Worlds
Hardcover. Offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. The author also draws on themes of ethical subjectivity in the work of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze to provide essential reading for those involved in nineteenth-century literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
This book offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. Pursuing theoretically and philosophically informed close readings, John Hughes emphasizes issues of the embodied mind in literary texts, and explores the inventive and discriminating powers of thought -- as well as the projections of identity and relatedness -- staged and expressed by imaginative writing in the 'long nineteenth-century'. Within each chapter a writer is seen as investigating the physical or emotional determinants of mind, as well as the social conditions of subjectification, through the ... Read more
This book offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. Pursuing theoretically and philosophically informed close readings, John Hughes emphasizes issues of the embodied mind in literary texts, and explores the inventive and discriminating powers of thought -- as well as the projections of identity and relatedness -- staged and expressed by imaginative writing in the 'long nineteenth-century'. Within each chapter a writer is seen as investigating the physical or emotional determinants of mind, as well as the social conditions of subjectification, through the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194420
SKU
V9781845194420
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99-24
About John Hughes
John Hughes is professor of nineteenth-century literature at the University of Gloucestershire. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, literary theory, and twentieth-century philosophy. He has written four books, Lines of Flight (Continuum, 1996), Ecstatic Sound (Ashgate, 2001), Affective Worlds (Sussex Academic Press, 2011) and Invisible Now (Routledge, 2013).
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