Eccentricity
Culture from the Margins
dc.contributor.author | Emig, Rainer | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-26T10:30:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-26T10:30:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-04-28 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/100401 | |
dc.description.abstract | Eccentricity is a stereotype of Englishness. Yet despite its popularity, it has not merited much academic investigation. The present study offers a theoretically grounded overview of the emergence, structures and artistic productions resulting from eccentricity. It starts with its prehistory in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance before pinpointing its emergence in the seventeenth century. From then onwards it serves to negotiate cultural dissent and make it productive. What goes hand in hand with eccentricity is the individual, not as essentially given, but as relational. In the same way that eccentricity has textual and intertextual origins, eccentrics, despite their seeming singularity, form patterns. These can be used as cultural ‘fertiliser’ or as façades in the case of present-day British politicians. The study offers a re-reading of English Literature and Culture from the margins as well as theoretical outlooks in the directions of Gender and Postcolonial Studies. | en_US |
dc.language | English | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - | en_US |
dc.subject.other | eccentricity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | culture | en_US |
dc.subject.other | margins | en_US |
dc.subject.other | centre | en_US |
dc.subject.other | outsider | en_US |
dc.subject.other | character | en_US |
dc.subject.other | integration | en_US |
dc.subject.other | flexibility | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Early Modern Age | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Romanticism | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Victorianism | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Modern Age | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Postmodernity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | melancholy | en_US |
dc.subject.other | nostalgia | en_US |
dc.subject.other | anecdote | en_US |
dc.subject.other | identity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | power | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Diogenes | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Theophrastus | en_US |
dc.title | Eccentricity | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Culture from the Margins | en_US |
dc.type | book | |
dc.description.version | Published | en_US |
oapen.abstract.otherlanguage | Eccentricity is a stereotype of Englishness. Yet despite its popularity, it has not merited much academic investigation. The present study offers a theoretically grounded overview of the emergence, structures and artistic productions resulting from eccentricity. It starts with its prehistory in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance before pinpointing its emergence in the seventeenth century. From then onwards it serves to negotiate cultural dissent and make it productive. What goes hand in hand with eccentricity is the individual, not as essentially given, but as relational. In the same way that eccentricity has textual and intertextual origins, eccentrics, despite their seeming singularity, form patterns. These can be used as cultural ‘fertiliser’ or as façades in the case of present-day British politicians. The study offers a re-reading of English Literature and Culture from the margins as well as theoretical outlooks in the directions of Gender and Postcolonial Studies. | en_US |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | 3035cbb2-5b95-423e-a417-aa031b9a9ee5 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 978-3-534-45028-2 | en_US |
oapen.relation.isbn | 978-3-534-45029-9 | en_US |
oapen.imprint | wbg Academic | en_US |
oapen.pages | 288 | en_US |
oapen.place.publication | Darmstadt | en_US |
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