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"The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English provides an interdisciplinary overview of the vibrant connections between literature, politics, and the political. Featuring contributions from 41 scholars across a variety of disciplines, the collection is divided into five parts: Connecting Literature and Politics; Constituting the Polis; Periods and Histories; Media, Genre, and Techne; and Spaces. Organised around familiar concepts - such as humans, animals, workers, empires, nations and states - rather than theoretical schools, it will help readers to understand the ways in which literature affects our understanding of who is capable of political action, who has been included in and excluded from politics, and how different spaces are imagined to be political. It also offers a series of engagements with key moments in literary and political history from 1066 to the present in order to assess and reassess the utility of conventional modes of periodization. The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of literary studies as a whole which will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions into broader contexts"--

Transgression and Its Limits is a long overdue collection that reads the complex relationship between artistic transgressions and the limits of law and the subject. In mid-twentieth century theoretical understandings of transgressive culture, it is the existence of the limit that guarantees the possibility and success of the transgression. While the limit calls for obedience, it also tempts with the possibility of violation. To breach the limits of the acceptable is to simultaneously define them. However, this classical understanding of transgression may no longer apply under the conditions of post-modernity, late-capitalism, and the simulated or empty transgressions that this period of the simulacra encourages. Context becomes paramount in reading the myriad forms of transgression that encompass politics, aesthetics and the ethics of the obscene; while a range of theoretical perspectives are employed in order to elucidate the economies at work underneath the seemingly transgressive act. The essays selected include explorations of transgression in cinema, photography, art, law, music, philosophy, technology, and both classical and contemporary literature and drama. Professor Fred Botting's (co-author of Bataille and The Tarantinian Ethics) analysis of transgression from Bataille, to Baudrillard and Ballard compliments the collection's concerns about the status of transgression. Aside from fourteen critical essays on topics such as early-modern drama, George Bataille, J. G. Ballard, the female necrophilic, "torture-porn" cinema, and the art of Robert Mapplethorpe and Salvador Dali, there is also a new discussion of transgression between novelist Iain Banks and Professor Roderick Watson (Emeritus at the University of Stirling). With its focus on the paradoxical nature of the impulse to transgress, as well at its wide-ranging historical and artistic

"In confronting their tumultuous time, antebellum American writers often invoked unrevealable secrets. Five of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most inventive interlocutors - Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass, and Jacobs - produced their most riveting political thought in response to Emerson's idea that moods fundamentally shape one's experience of the world, changing only through secret causes that no one fully grasps. In this volume, Dominic Mastroianni frames antebellum and Civil War literature within the history of modern philosophical skepticism, ranging from Descartes and Hume to Levinas and Cavell, arguing that its political significance lies only partially in its most overt engagement with political issues like slavery, revolution, reform, and war. It is when antebellum writing is most philosophical, figurative, and seemingly unworldly that its political engagement is most profound. Mastroianni offers new readings of six major American authors and explores the teeming archive of nineteenth-century print culture"--

This article is a study focused on the value and roles of Thai Buddhist literature in Thai society. I examined major Buddhist Thai literary works found in the culture of Thai literary art. The conclusion obtained is that Thai Buddhist literature has value and roles in Thai society as follows: 1) Value and roles in respect of being Buddhist art 2) Value and roles in respect of teaching 3) Value and roles in respect of ideas and belief 4) Value and roles in respect of politics and government 5) Value and roles in respect of continuing Buddhism. It also has the value of maintaining Buddhism in Thai culture due to its distinctive character that corresponds with the context of Thai society and its gratification in terms of the aesthetic spirituality of the people in the society.

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale's work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her "call to service" into practice: by first learning how the laws of God's world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the famil.

This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russia's modern authors in the context of their society at the time. Post-revolutionary Russian literature has made a profound impact on the West while still maintaining its traditional role as a vehicle for political struggle at home. Professor Hingley places their lives and work firmly in the setting of the USSR's social and political structure.

Intro -- A Companion to the Global Renaissance -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Global Renaissance -- Part I: Mapping the Global -- 1. The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon -- 2. "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject -- 3. Islam and Tamburlaine's World-Picture -- 4. Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period -- 5. Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia -- Part II: "Contact Zones" -- 6. "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India -- 7. Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer -- 8. Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608-1611 -- 9. Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges -- 10. The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns -- 11. The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire -- 12. The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan -- 13. Placing Iceland -- 14. East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553-1603 -- 15. Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shaˉhnaˉmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599-1628 -- Part III: "To Live by Traffic": Global Networks of Exchange -- 16. The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India -- 17. Hakluyt's Books and Hawkins' Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560-1600.

The new world literature : literary studies discovers globalization -- The world according to Hegel : culture and power in world history -- The world as market : the materialist inversion of spiritualist models of the world -- Worlding : the phenomenological concept of worldliness and the loss of world in modernity -- The in-between world : anthropologizing the force of worlding -- The arriving world : the inhuman otherness of time as real messianic hope -- Postcolonial openings : how postcolonial literature becomes world literature -- Projecting a future world from the memory of precolonial time -- World heritage preservation and the expropriation of subaltern worlds -- Resisting humanitarianization -- Epilogue without conclusion : Stories without end(s)