Oceans of Non-Relation

A recently published book with Brontë-related content:

Comparative Practices
Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century

Edited by Nadine Böhm-Schnitker and Marcus Hartner

[Transcript] Publishing

ISBN 978-3-8376-5799-9

January 2022

Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation of bodies, artefacts, discourses, and ideas, and aims to investigate how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.

The book includes the chapter "Oceans of Non-Relation: Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More" by Caroline Koegler.