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oapen-20.500.12657-317562021-11-04T14:08:23Z Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism Morris, Pam Literature Idealism Individualism Jane Austen Philosophical realism Virginia Woolf bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen’s and Woolf’s rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:48:25Z 2020-04-01T13:48:25Z 2017-01-31 book 625278 OCN: 981692797 9781474423533 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31756 eng application/pdf n/a 625278.pdf Edinburgh University Press 10.26530/oapen_625278 100132 10.26530/oapen_625278 2a191404-86cd-479e-afc8-ff2b8d611a94 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781474423533 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100132 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen’s and Woolf’s rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.
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