1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English
The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English provides an interdisciplinary overview of the vibrant connections between literature, politics, and the political.
Featuring contributions from 44 scholars across a variety of disciplines, the collection is divided into five parts: Connecting Literature and Politics; Constituting the Polis; Periods and Histories; Media, Genre, and Techne; and Spaces. Organized around familiar concepts—such as humans, animals, workers, empires, nations, and states—rather than theoretical schools, it will help readers to understand the ways in which literature affects our understanding of who is capable of political action, who has been included in and excluded from politics, and how different spaces are imagined to be political. It also offers a series of engagements with key moments in literary and political history from 1066 to the present in order to assess and reassess the utility of conventional modes of periodization.
The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of literary studies, which will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions within broader contexts.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Matthew Stratton
PART I Connecting Literature and Politics
- Aesthetics and Affect
- Forms
- Realism and Representation
- Symptoms
- Reforms and Revolutions
- Rights Catalogue
- Empires, Decolonization, and the Canon
- Citizenship and Enslavement
- Humans and Posthumans
- Animals
- Workers
- Debtors
- Refugees
- Nations and States
- On or about 1066
- On or about 1400
- On or about 1616
- On or about 1789
- On or about 1885
- On or about 1914
- On or about 1945
- On or about 1989
- On or about Now
- Sound and Print
- Photography
- Art, Propaganda and Truth
- Criticism
- Digital Platforms
- Translation
- Comics
- Archives
- Homes
- Cities
- Streets and Highways
- Nature
- Oceans
- Borders
- Planets
- Utopia
- Classrooms
Tyler Bradway
Ingrid Nelson
Regina Martin
Benjamin Kohlmann
John S. Garrison and Kyle Pivetti
Juno Jill Richards
Maryam Wasif Khan
PART II Constituting the Polis
Elizabeth J. West
Jennifer Rhee
Mario Ortiz-Robles
Benjamin Balthaser
Robin Truth Goodman
Hadji Bakara
Jessie Reeder
PART III Periods and Histories
Mary Rambaran-Olm
Susan Nakley
Urvashi Chakravarti
John Owen Havard
Padma Rangarajan
Tanya Agathocleous
Claire Seiler
Ian Afflerbach
Rachel Greenwald Smith
PART IV Media, Genre, Techne
Anthony Reed
Emily Hyde
Melissa Dinsman
Thom Dancer
J.D. Schnepf
Roland Végső
Daniel Worden
PART V Spaces
Megan Ward
Natalie Pollard
Ameeth Vijay
Sam Weselowski and Myka Tucker-Abramson
Steven Swarbrick
Alison Maas
Anne Mai Yee Jansen
Gerry Canavan
Deanna K. Kreisel
Laura Heffernan and Rachel Sagner Buurma
Index
Biography
Matthew Stratton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of The Politics of Irony in American Modernism (2014).