Lexington Books
Pages: 202
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-6269-0 • Hardback • November 2018 • $95.00 • (£65.00)
978-1-4985-6270-6 • eBook • November 2018 • $90.00 • (£60.00)
Jarrad Cogle is independent scholar in research on literary and film criticism.
Lydia Saleh Rofail is PhD candidate in English at the University of Sydney.
N. Cyril Fischer is independent scholar in research on new modernism and contemporary fiction studies.
Vanessa Smith is professor of English literature at the University of Sydney.
Section 1: Literary History after the Everyday
Chapter 1: Portable Vision, Form, and Objects in Henry James, by Zachary Tavlin and Bob Hodges
Chapter 2: Fredric Jameson and Affect Theory: Realism and Everyday Experience, by Jarrad Cogle
Chapter 3: Novel Readings: Mind- and Emotion-reading Devices in the Mid-twentieth Century and in Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Chris Rudge
Section 2: Everyday Epistemologies
Chapter 4: Filth and the Everyday, by Hisup Shin
Chapter 5: The Prosaic and the Phantasmagoric: Urban Bodies in Peter Carey’s The Tax Inspector, by Lydia Saleh Rofail
Chapter 6: “I had made it myself”: Convergence of Past and Present Selves in Villette, by Jennifer Wilson
Section 3: Everyday Readers
Chapter 7: Domesticating Charlotte Corday: Helen Craik’s Adelaide de Narbonne and Private Vengeance, by Stephanie Russo
Chapter 8: Thomas Wolfe and the Domestication of Culture, by Jedidiah Evans
Chapter 9: Missing Books, by Nicola Evans
Afterword: Portability Now: Between Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Ontology, by John Plotz