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Christopher Castiglia

The Practices of Hope

Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times

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Offers a positive approach to literary criticism At a moment when the hermeneutics of suspicion” is under fire in literary studies, The Practices of Hope encourages an alternative approach that, rather than abandoning critique altogether, relinquishes its commitment to disenchantment. As an alternative, Castiglia offers hopeful reading, a combination of idealism and imagination that retains its analytic edge yet moves beyond nay-saying to articulate the values that shape our scholarship and creates the possible worlds that animate genuine social critique. Drawing on a variety of critics from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, from Granv… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4798-0355-2
  • EAN: 9781479803552
  • Produktnummer: 22836361
  • Verlag: New York University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Masse: H15.4 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.8 cm 374 g
  • Gewicht: 374
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Christopher Castiglia is Distinguished Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst; Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States; and, with Christopher Reed, If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past. He is co-founder of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and co-editor of its journal J19.

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