The Debt Chronotope

differences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Frederik Tygstrup
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Narrative Time ◽  
Financial Capitalism

When literature engages in portraying the contemporary rule of finance and its impact on our lives, it also entails a transformation of the forms through which literature represents our lives. Over the last decades, as debt has become an ever more important motive in contemporary literature, we have thus also seen the contours of a new debt chronotope: a particular organization of narrative time and space that can gauge and expound on the working of debt-driven financial capitalism. This essay’s argument hinges partly on an analysis of the spatiotemporal logic of contemporary financial capitalism and partly on the historical transformation of representations of debt from nineteenth-century realism to European literature of the present.

FAITH AND URBAN DOMESTIC SOCIABILITY IN NORTHERN ENGLAND, 1760–1835

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
KATE GIBSON
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Opportunities ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article examines the relationship between religion and the informal, everyday instances of sociability that took place in urban homes between 1760 and 1835. Using the letters and diaries of middling and labouring individuals living in northern English towns, it suggests that religious practice was not separate from ‘secular’ sociability, but occurred in the same time and space. The article demonstrates that worldly practices and considerations such as courtship and the demonstration of status were entwined with matters of faith, and that the social opportunities offered by the industrializing town were considered to revitalize rather than endanger faith. The article builds on existing research into sociability and nonconformity in earlier periods to suggest that informal domestic sociability was a significant arena for lay agency and an integral part of individual faith for Anglicans, as well as individuals across the Protestant spectrum, well into the nineteenth century.

Literary Contributions of Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

1944 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Francis Borgia Steck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
Real Importance ◽  
The Temple

A Phase of American history that calls for a more adequate appraisal is the role played by Catholics in the cultural life of Mexico during the nineteenth century, from Hidalgo’s dash for independence in 1810 to the collapse of the Díaz regime in 1910. It is commonly believed that during these hundred years Catholics in Mexico were dolefully sitting on the sidelines and sucking their thumbs, wistfully waiting for a chance to enter once more and enrich with their contribution the temple of national culture. So many imagine that Catholics in nineteenth-century Mexico, being fettered politically and black-listed socially, manifested little interest and made no worthwhile contributions along cultural lines. Belonging generally to the so-called “conservative” party in the political arena, they are supposed to have been debarred from the cultured “liberal” circles of the day and for this reason remained inarticulate, contributing nothing of real importance and enduring value to the culture of independent Mexico and exerting no appreciable influence on contemporary literature, art, science, and education.

scholarly journals Webs of Affection and Obligation: Glimpse into Families and Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Communities

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Jane Errington
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Upper Canada ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This paper explores the networks of affection, of frustration, and of obligation that continued to tie families and friends divided by the Atlantic in the first half of the nineteenth century as seen through the correspondence of two men — John Gemmill, who with his wife and 7 children emigrated to Upper Canada in the 1820s, and John Turner, who stayed home in England after his younger brother resettled in St. Andrews, New Brunswick in the 1830s. A close reading of this correspondence illustrates how kith and kin divided by the Atlantic continued to assert their place around family firesides, despite the difficulties presented by the gulf of time and space. Through their letters, correspondents on both sides of the Atlantic also negotiated often highly contested relationships that changed over time. At the same time, this link offered emigrants some reassurance of who they were and their place in the world as they negotiated new identities.

scholarly journals Hamlet and Japanese Men of Letters

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (29) ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Yoshiko Kawachi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Japanese Men

Shakespeare has exerted a powerful influence on Japanese literature since he was accepted in the second half of the nineteenth century. Particularly Hamlet has had a strong impact on Japanese men of letters and provided them with the impetus to revive the play in contemporary literature. In this paper I discuss how they have utilized Hamlet for their creative activity and enriched Japanese literature.

The Necessities and Dangers of Translation: Brazilian Literature on a Global Stage

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Krista Brune
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
English Language ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Translation Grants

This article examines how translation helped to establish Brazil as a tropical site of desire for foreign audiences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how translations of contemporary literature often struggle to break free from this established dynamic. By studying the discursive construction of a modern Brazil in the nineteenth century and the practices of translation in contemporary Brazilian literature, I contend that the insertion of Brazil into realms of world literature often depends upon acts of representation and translation that frame the nation and its peoples as exotic. Analysing the Brazilian government's recent translation grants and contemporary English-language anthologies of Brazilian literature reveals a tendency to translate either an exotic Brazil marked by violence and poverty or a global Brazil inhabited by cosmopolitan characters. The piece concludes by reflecting on how a politics of untranslatability could transform the translation and global circulation of Brazilian literature.

The Future of the Human Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Ivan Jablonka
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Cognitive Tools ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
The Future

Amid the current crisis in the humanities and the human sciences, researchers should take up the challenge of writing more effectively. Rather than clinging to forms inherited from the nineteenth century, they should invent new ways to captivate readers, while also providing better demonstrations of their research. Defining problems, drawing on a multitude of sources, carrying out investigations, taking journeys in time and space: these methods of inquiry are as much literary opportunities as cognitive tools. They invite experimentation in writing across disciplines, trying out different lines of reasoning, shuttling back and forth between past and present, describing the process of discovery, and using the narrative “I.” We can address the public creatively, decompartmentalize disciplines, and encourage encounters between history and literature, sociology and cinema, anthropology and graphic novels—all without compromising intellectual rigor. Now more than ever, the human sciences need to assert their place in the polis.

The Romance of Transportation in Wordsworth, Emerson, De Quincey, and Dickinson

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Li-Hsin Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Technological Sublime

This essay investigates diverging transatlantic attitudes towards mechanisation in the mid-nineteenth century by looking at the portrayals of steam engines in Anglo-American Romantic literary works by Wordsworth, Emerson, De Quincey and Dickinson. Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes how time and space are ‘annihilated’ with the speed of industrialization. Walter Benjamin, alternatively, indicates how the metaphoric dressing up of steam engines as living creatures was a retreat from industrialization and modernization. Those conflicting perceptions of what David Nye calls the ‘technological sublime’ became sources of joy as well as sorrow for these authors. The essay examines how the literary representations of transportation show various literary attempts to make sense of and rewrite the technological promise of the future into distinct aesthetic experiences of modernity. Their imaginative engagement with the railway showcases a genealogy of metaphorical as well as mechanic transportation that indicates an evolving process of Romantic thought across the Atlantic Ocean.

Whe Railway Journey: The Industrilization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century

1988 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 1296
Author(s):  
Anthony Esler ◽  
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Time And Space
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