Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2019.6

Dis­cours­es of vision in nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry Britain: see­ing, think­ing, writ­ing
This book offers an inno­v­a­tive reassess­ment of the way Vic­to­ri­ans thought and wrote about visu­al expe­ri­ence. It argues that new visu­al tech­nolo­gies gave expres­sion to new ways of see­ing, using these to uncov­er the visu­al dis­cours­es that facil­i­tat­ed, informed and shaped the way peo­ple con­cep­tu­alised and artic­u­lat­ed visu­al expe­ri­ence. In doing so, the book recon­sid­ers lit­er­ary and non-fic­tion works by well-known authors includ­ing George Eliot, Charles Dick­ens, G.H. Lewes, Max Nor­dau, Her­bert Spencer, and Joseph Con­rad, as well as shed­ding light on less-known works drawn from the peri­od­i­cal press. By reveal­ing the dis­cours­es that formed around visu­al tech­nolo­gies, the book chal­lenges and builds upon exist­ing schol­ar­ship to pro­vide a pow­er­ful new mod­el by which to under­stand how the Vic­to­ri­ans expe­ri­enced, con­cep­tu­alised, and wrote about vision.
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Drugs and the addic­tion aes­thet­ic in nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry lit­er­a­ture
This book explores the rise of the aes­thet­ic cat­e­go­ry of addic­tion in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, a cen­tu­ry that saw the devel­op­ment of an estab­lished med­ical sense of drug addic­tion. Drugs and the Addic­tion Aes­thet­ic in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Lit­er­a­ture focus­es espe­cial­ly on for­mal invention—on the uses of lit­er­ary pat­terns for inten­si­fied, explorato­ry engage­ment with unat­tained possibility—resulting from lit­er­ary inter­sec­tions with addic­tion dis­course. Ear­ly chap­ters con­sid­er how Roman­tics such as Thomas De Quincey cre­at­ed, with regard to drug habit, an idea of habit­u­al crav­ing that relat­ed to self-exper­i­ment­ing sci­ence and lit­er­ary explo­ration; lat­er chap­ters look at Vic­to­ri­ans who drew from sim­i­lar under­stand­ings while devis­ing nar­ra­tives of repet­i­tive inves­ti­ga­tion. The authors con­sid­ered include De Quincey, Per­cy Shel­ley, Alfred Ten­nyson, Christi­na Ros­set­ti, Charles Dick­ens, Robert Louis Steven­son, and Marie Corel­li.
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