Literatures of Liberalization Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century /

• Main Author: Gagnier, Regenia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Comparisons in World Literature
• Subjects: Literature .; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact rather than national boundaries,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Transcultural Transformation of a Field
• 2. Global Circulation and Some Problems in Liberalism, Liberalization, and Neoliberalism
• 3. Dialogical Imaginations: European Ideas of Plasticity, Freedom and Choice in the Long Nineteenth Century
• 4. Trollope's Modernity: Speed-up, Stress, and Resentment in the Public Sphere
• 5. The Global Circulation of Charles Dickens's Novels
• 6. Global Literatures of Decadence
• 7. Crossed Histories: Social Formations in Friction
• 8. Coda on Processes of Sex, Gender and Desire in the Anthropocene. .