TY  - GEN
T1  - Embodied experience in British and French literature, 1778-1814 : women and belonging
A1  - Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009463966
AB  - Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, this study examines how French and British women writers working at a transformative time for European literature connected vibrantly to objects as diverse as statues, monuments, diamonds, and hats. In such connections, they manifested their own (often forbidden) embodiment and asserted their élan vital. Interweaving texts by Edgeworth, Staël, Bernardin, Wordsworth, Smith, and Burney, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson posits the concept of belonging with, a generative, embodied experience of the nonhuman that foregrounds the interdependence among things, women, social systems, and justice. Exploring the benefits such embodied experiences offer, this book uncovers an ethical materialism in literature and illuminates how women characters who draw on things can secure rights that laws neither stipulate nor safeguard. In doing so, they-and their texts-transcend dualistic thinking to create positive ecological, personal, and political outcomes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
OP  - 298
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Dec 2024).
CN  - PR448.W63 H49 2025
SN  - 9781009463966 (ebook)
SN  - 9781009463980 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009463997 (paperback)
SN  - 9781009463980
KW  - Women in literature.
KW  - English literature : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - French literature : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - French literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
ER  -