{"product_id":"jane-austen-virginia-woolf-and-pam-morris-9781474437691","title":"Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAusten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe book uses close readings from \u003cem\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEmma\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Years\u003c\/em\u003e to demonstrate the materialist sensibilities of Austen and Woolf\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIt traces the anti-individualism of their view of self and consciousness as deriving from embodied experience\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach chapter foregrounds the constitutive interrelationship of things, people, social and physical worlds\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe book reconceptualises a progressive view of realism - worldly realism - drawing upon Jacques Ranci鑽e's thesis that a new democratic aesthetic regime is inaugurated around the end of the eighteenth century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pam Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474437699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474437691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Pam Morris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935513608447,"sku":"9781474437691","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4d54ec12-592a-43de-9a68-1694d38c0452.jpg?v=1681420234","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jane-austen-virginia-woolf-and-pam-morris-9781474437691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}