Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2021.5

Aging, dura­tion, and the Eng­lish nov­el: grow­ing old from Dick­ens to Woolf
The rapid onset of demen­tia after an ill­ness, the devel­op­ment of gray hair after a trau­mat­ic loss, the sud­den appear­ance of a wrin­kle in the brow of a spurned lover. The real­ist nov­el uses these con­ven­tions to accel­er­ate the process of aging into a descrip­tive moment, writ­ing the pas­sage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Dura­tion, and the Eng­lish Nov­el argues that the for­mal dis­ap­pear­ance of aging from the nov­el par­al­lels the ide­o­log­i­cal pres­sure to iden­ti­fy as being young by repress­ing the process of grow­ing old. The con­struc­tion of aging as a shame­ful event that should be hid­den — to improve one’s chances on the job mar­ket or secure a suc­cess­ful mar­riage — cor­re­sponds to the rise of the long nov­el, which draws upon the tem­po­ral­i­ty of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry British moder­ni­ty.
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Shake­speare and Geek Cul­ture
From fan­ta­sy and sci-fi to graph­ic nov­els, from boy scouts to board games, from block­buster films to the cult of the­atre, Shake­speare is every­where in pop­u­lar cul­ture. Where there is pop­u­lar cul­ture there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this col­lec­tion on Shake­speare and Geek Cul­ture take an inno­v­a­tive approach to the study of Shakespeare’s cul­tur­al pres­ences, sit­u­at­ing his works, his image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that geek­i­ness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrec­og­nized fea­ture of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by Shake­speare, whether they are schol­ars, film fans, the­atre-goers or mem­bers of legions of oth­er group­ings in which Shake­speare plays his part.
Work­ing at the inter­sec­tions of a wide range of fields – includ­ing fan stud­ies and film analy­sis, cul­tur­al stud­ies and fan­ta­sy/s­ci-fi the­o­ry – the authors demon­strate how the par­tic­u­lar­i­ties of the con­nec­tion between Shake­speare and geek cul­ture gen­er­ate new insights into the plays, poems and their larg­er cul­tur­al lega­cy in the 21st cen­tu­ry.
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