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To know the nature of a man, noted J. G. Hamann in 1759 in his 'Morsels, Crumbs, and Fragments,' you must inquire about the conditions of his life. The 24 essays in the present volume reveal Hamann's position at the crossroads of different social constellations. They raise new questions about the Königsberg scholar's ideas regarding the history of society and religion, social theory, economics, philosophy, political science, and religious studies. In this way, they help us to more precisely locate Hamann's place in the key discourses of the Enlightenment. Manfred Beetz undAndre Rudolph, Universität Halle.

Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen die Fragen nach der Funktion von Schriftlichkeit als Grundlage von Literatur und Kultur sowie nach dem konkreten Verhältnis literarischer Texte zu kulturellen Kontexten. Schrift wird in diesem Horizont nicht als ein Medium unter vielen begriffen, sondern als eine Übertragungsfigur, die den Medienwechsel zwischen »Phoné« und »Graphé« immer schon prätendiert. Damit werden die unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen der Kunst und der Medien in ihrem Verhältnis zur Literalität ebenso virulent wie die kognitiven Prozesse der Sprachverarbeitung. Dass sich diese Verhältnisse als liminale Räume konturieren lassen, ist eine der Kernthesen dieses interdisziplinären Bandes.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One ''NOW BEING'': SLAVERY, SPECULATION, AND THE MEASURE OF OUR TIME -- 1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century -- 2. ''Subject '; or, the ''Type'' of the Modern -- 3. ''Madam Death! Madam Death!'': Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation -- 4. ''Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon'': Modernity and the Truth Event -- 5. ''Please decide'': The Singular and the Speculative -- Part Two SPECTERS OF THE ATLANTIC: SLAVERY AND THE WITNESS -- 6. Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception -- 7. The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of ''Humanity'' -- 8. The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness -- 9. The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment -- 10. ''To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down'': The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism -- 11. This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against ''History'' -- Part Three ''THE SEA IS HISTORY'' -- 12. ''The Sea is History'': On Temporal Accumulation -- Notes -- Index

Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-18th century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the 'beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicized account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have bedevilled discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-18th century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), and the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance. Key Features * Examines gothic texts including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, (Anon), The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Thomas Leland's Longsword * Provides a rigorous and robust theory of the Irish Gothic * Reads early Irish gothic fully into the political context of mid-18th century Ireland This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Becoming a mother profoundly alters one's perception of the world, as Lindal Buchanan learned firsthand when she gave birth. Suddenly attentive to representations of mothers and mothering in advertisements, fiction, film, art, education, and politics, she became intrigued by the persuasive force of the concept of motherhood, an interest that unleashed a host of questions: How is the construct defined? How are maternal appeals crafted, presented, and performed? What do they communicate about gender and power? How do they affect women? Her quest for answers has produced Rhetorics of Motherhood, the first book-length consideration of the topic through a feminist rhetorical lens…. [From Amazon.com] ; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/womensstudies_books/1005/thumbnail.jpg

An analysis of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens argues that the total transformation of Sydney Carton is Dickens's attempt to redeem the law he was formerly critical of, which required sacrificing critique, a point made by Sydney Carton's execution. Michel Foucault's (1978) concept of "care of the self" is drawn on to show that Carton's sacrifice represents a symbolic rebirth in both the sacramental & psychoanalytical sense. It is contended that Carton is the "proto-critical legal lawyer" that would be denounced by today's conservative judges for his nihilism, lack of neutrality, & politics. Ways in which the revolutionary scenes set in France support the claim that Dickens aligns himself with this contemporary "critique of critique" are discussed, along with how Dickens links the law & economy to dramatize competing legalities of both common-civil law, & liberal legalism-revolutionary justice, in order to reveal English jurisprudence's mid-19th century goal to bring the common law system in sync with the needs of capital. 68 References. J. Lindroth