{"product_id":"common-things-james-d-lilley-9780823255153","title":"Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced--and were influenced by--emerging modern systems of community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the work of Washington Irving, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Montgomery Bird, and Charles Brockden Brown, the book shows how romance promotes a distinctive aesthetics of belonging--a mode of being in common tied to new qualities of the singular. Each chapter focuses on one of these common things--the stain of race, the \"property\" of personhood, ruined feelings, the genre of a text, and the event of history--and examines how these peculiar qualities work to sustain the coherence of our modern common places. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the work of Horace Walpole and Edgar Allan Poe, the book further uncovers an important-- and never more timely--alternative aesthetic practice that reimagines community as an open and fugitive process rather than as a collection of common things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James D. Lilley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823255158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823255153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Literatures Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2014","brand":"James D. Lilley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202680537343,"sku":"9780823255153","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aed32361-398a-45a3-904f-910dbc2457ad.jpg?v=1756833089","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/common-things-james-d-lilley-9780823255153","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}