The Wanderer and His Shadow

1996 ◽  
pp. 301-395 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Wanderer

The imagery of The Wanderer

Neophilologus ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Clark ◽  
Julian N. Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
The Wanderer

Burney's The Wanderer and Early-Nineteenth-Century Commodity Fetishism

2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Labor Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
The Wanderer

This essay explores a particular moment in the history of commodity fetishism by means of an examination of Frances Burney's The Wanderer (1814). The novel, which is explicitly concerned with the social changes facing early-nineteenth-century England, reveals that at this historical moment the commodity inspired emotions of a particular kind: it was idealized and perceived as attractively individualized, aloof, exotic, and changeable, and it elicited a passionate and sometimes even painful form of desire. In The Wanderer Burney explores the human repercussions of this new way of engaging with objects in the marketplace. She reveals, moreover, the extent to which the fetishism of the commodity reflected not just developments within the economy but also political change: under the influence of the French Revolution the charisma once generated by social status was transferred to the economic realm, where, embodied in the commodity, it gave rise to a pleasurable but masochistic reverence. Burney'sargument for the usefulness of economic independence necessarily leads her to appreciate the commodity fetishism she describes: even while she develops a labor theory of value, Burney promotes a mystification of the commodity by insisting on the aloof independence of both labor and its products. Thus, Burney uses the apparent autonomy of things——which Marx decries——as a means to argue for the autonomy of the makers of those things.

70. Auden’s the Wanderer

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 132-136
Author(s):  
Duncan Robertson
Keyword(s):  
The Wanderer

At World's Edge: Post/Coloniality, Charles Maturin, and the Gothic Wanderer

2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Doyle
Keyword(s):  
The Caribbean ◽  
Political Investments ◽  
The Wanderer

Laura Doyle, “At World's Edge: Post/Coloniality, Charles Maturin, and the Gothic Wanderer” (pp. 513–547) The Gothic text has been shown to represent colonialism's crimes through its literary tropes of imprisonment, terror, rape, and tyranny. This essay takes a further step to propose that Gothic texts also register the historical resistance to colonialism's crimes. That is, they refer to anti-colonial insurgency—in Ireland, India, the Caribbean, and elsewhere—in the process evincing ambivalent anxieties about global, imperial instability. After reviewing the Gothic‘s entanglement with discourses of both liberation and barbarism, reflective of its contradictory political investments, the essay focuses on Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) to demonstrate the ways in which Gothic texts are structured against insurgency even as, in their “wandering,” haunted figures, they unveil a world in turmoil.

The Wanderer, 78-84

1978 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
T. J. Ray
Keyword(s):  
The Wanderer

The Wanderer, 1984–2000

2001 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
David Atlas
Keyword(s):  
The Wanderer

scholarly journals Mellem to verdener - Krigsrepræsentationer hos Walter Flex, Ernst Jünger og Erich Maria Remarque

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Adam Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Western Front ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Wanderer

This article compares representations of war in Walter Flex’ The Wanderer between Two Worlds (1916), Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel (1920), and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). It shows the extent to which these representations are shaped by political and ideological convictions. The difference between the romantic idealism of Flex and Jünger’s “soldierly nationalism”,which he proposed as a model for the time to come, reflects a major shift during World War I itself. By contrast, neither past nor future seem to be of any use in Remarque’s famous antiwar novel, in which the war generation surprisingly is described as having nothing else to live for beyond the present, i.e. beyond war. Finally, the article suggests how these different representations of war each, in their own way, contributed to the aesthetics and ideology of fascism.

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