Common Things by James D Lilley
Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.-
Documentality
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Sensible Life
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Terms of the Political
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Experiments in Exile
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Practicing Caste
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The Republic of the Living
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Communities in Fiction
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The Life of Things, the Love of Things
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Form and Event
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Redemptive Hope
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Giorgio Agamben
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Where Are You?
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Liturgical Power
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Stasis Before the State
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Shattering Biopolitics
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Thinking Through Crisis
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The Subject of Freedom
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The Reject
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Two
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The Queer Turn in Feminism
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Europe and Empire
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Categories of the Impolitical
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Grammatology of Images
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Identity
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Sovereignty and Its Other
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Scandalize My Name
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The Origin of the Political
Scrupulously researched with keen interpretive insight, James Lilley's Common Things is a gripping analysis of the transatlantic traditions of Gothic, sentimental, and historical romanceIn offering a new way of understanding citizenship, it reconfigures the aesthetics of modernity. A wonderfully rich interdisciplinary study. -- -Colin Dayan author of The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons James Lilley's book demands an accounting of historicity at an important moment in the field. Common Things offers not only insightful readings of a range of texts but also needed reflections on how our historical sensibilities are part of the blend. -- -Edward D. White Tulane University
James D. Lilley is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is editor of Cormac McCarthy: New Directions.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823255153 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823255158 |
| Title | Common Things |
| Author | James D Lilley |
| Series | Commonalities |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2013-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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