By the 1820s, falling book prices and rising literacy rates had created England's first literate working-class majority. These workers had read other people's lives. In Literature by the Working Class, Cassandra Falke provides a close literary analysis of five of these autobiographies, situating them in their historical and literary context but privileging each as a work of literature that deserves the same careful attention readers pay to other literary texts of the period. roposes a way to read working-class autobiographies that attends to both the socio-historical influences on their...
By the 1820s, falling book prices and rising literacy rates had created England's first literate working-class majority. These workers had read other ...
The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy. The literary return to ethics also coincides with a spate of neuroscientific discoveries about cognition and emotion. But without a philosophical grounding this new work cannot speak convincingly about literature's relationship to our ethical lives. Jean-Luc Marion's articulation of a phenomenology of love provides this philosophical grounding.
The Phenomenology of Love and Reading accepts Jean-Luc Marion's argument that love matters for who...
The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy. The litera...
