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Spacecraft
As I read Morton’s account of his childhood engagement with space flight, I thought of my own, when my personal imaginary met world history, though I certainly didn’t think in those terms at the time. In pursuing Morton’s childhood, I’m not attempting to shoehorn Spacecraft into old-fashioned biographical criticism whereby one seeks to explain a text by finding its secrets in the author’s autobiography. It’s part of the story he’s telling, one common to many children whose imagination has been fired with visions of space travel. It’s a story born of a specific cultural imaginary common among children of the last decades of the previous century … Spacecraft, then, is a vehicle in which Morton meditates on futurality. The Millennium Falcon, along with hyperspace, is at the center of this meditation.
€ 13,95 -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts providing an ideal orientation in the novel, its reception history and the critical material which surrounds it.
€ 165,40 -
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste
The Body and the Natural WorldBrought together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a study of the poet Shelley. Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for his views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the place of humans in nature, culture, and society.
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Shelley and the Revolution in Taste
The Body and the Natural World'… a subtle, thought-provoking and ambitious analysis of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley's thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley's poetics or the body's politics will be able to ignore.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
€ 44,50 -
Ecology without Nature
Rethinking Environmental AestheticsMorton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature most writers promote: they propose a new world view, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the “nature” they revere. To have a properly ecological view, Morton suggests, we must relinquish, once and for all, the idea of nature.
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The Cambridge Companion to Shelley
'Timothy Morton is a progressive choice of editor: he has brought new perspectives to Shelley studies (especially in his work on vegetarianism and eco-criticism) and constantly challenges his peers, much in the spirit of Shelley, not to lose the present and always to consider the future. He is a vibrant, lively presence and tries to make Shelley more accessible. … Morton, another adept philosopher-critic, ends the volume with the essay 'Nature and Culture' … This essay is particularly good on Shelley's unorthodox and profound understanding of reality, which is based on an opposition to the tyranny of habit, something Shelley saw as draining the life out of what it means to be human. It is a fitting end to a volume which … is forward looking, bursting with ideas and full of potential, much like its subject.' Advance Access
€ 107,95 -
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley
'Timothy Morton is a progressive choice of editor: he has brought new perspectives to Shelley studies (especially in his work on vegetarianism and eco-criticism) and constantly challenges his peers, much in the spirit of Shelley, not to lose the present and always to consider the future. He is a vibrant, lively presence and tries to make Shelley more accessible. … Morton, another adept philosopher-critic, ends the volume with the essay 'Nature and Culture' … This essay is particularly good on Shelley's unorthodox and profound understanding of reality, which is based on an opposition to the tyranny of habit, something Shelley saw as draining the life out of what it means to be human. It is a fitting end to a volume which … is forward looking, bursting with ideas and full of potential, much like its subject.' Advance Access
€ 37,50 -
The Poetics of Spice
This 2000 book considers the literary and cultural significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of consumerism and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. Timothy Morton demonstrates how the emerging consumer culture was characterized by an ornate, figuratively rich mode of representation which he describes as 'the poetics of spice'. This is the focal point for a probing analysis that addresses a host of related themes - exoticism, orientalism, colonialism, the slave trade, race and gender issues, and, above all, capitalism. Employing a mixture of Marxist, deconstructive and psychoanalytic theory, Morton explores how capitalist ideology was inscribed in the very materials of consumption. The book takes a wide historical perspective, surveying a range of literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts, and includes readings of Milton, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith and Southey among many others.
€ 142,40 -
Dark Ecology
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are.
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Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650-1830
In this volume of interdisciplinary essays, leading scholars examine the radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to the French Revolution. They chart continuities between the two periods and examine the recuperation of ideas and texts from the earlier period in the 1790s and beyond. Contributors utilize a variety of approaches and concepts: from gender studies, the cultural history of food and diet and the history of political discourse, to explorations of the theatre, philosophy and metaphysics. This volume argues that the radical agendas of the mid-seventeenth century, intended to change society fundamentally, did not disappear throughout the long eighteenth century only to be resuscitated at its close. Rather, through close textual analysis, these essays indicate a more continuous transmission.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular imagination. This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, bringing together material on: *the contexts from which Frankenstein emerged *the novel's early reception *adaptation and performance of the work (from theatre to pop music) *recent criticism. All documents are discussed and explained. The volume also includes offers carefully annotated key passages from the novel itself and concludes with a list of recommended editions and further reading, to allow readers to pursue their study in the areas that interest them most. This sourcebook provides an ideal orientation to the novel, its reception history and the critical material that surrounds it.
€ 50,60