L'entreprise est audacieuse car elle convoque des catégories aux contours souvent indécis, à commencer par l'étiquette « édouardien » qui, quand elle ne renvoie pas à une brève période historique, ...coincée entre le temps long victorien et la boucherie de la Grande Guerre, ne va pas nécessairement de soi quand il s'agit de roman : « Existe-t-il une littérature qu'on puisse qualifier d'édouardienne ? » (9. Le naturalisme devient dès lors le legs commun au « roman édouardien et moderniste » (54), fusionné dans un singulier collectif. Glosant Rancière, l'auteur rappelle opportunément que « la littérature dénoue les liens sociaux pour y retrouver les singularités originelles » (103) et que le processus d'individuation dans son rapport à l'autre et à soi-même, comme un autre peut-être, ne saurait occulter les « possibles tensions internes » qui traversent l'individu. Le conflit entre l'individuel et le collectif fait l'objet d'un traitement contrasté chez D. H. Lawrence à travers deux romans, The Rainbow et Women in Love, dont le second inverserait la logique du premier en quelque sorte.
Highlight of this Issue Adlington, Katherine
British journal of psychiatry,
10/2021, Letnik:
219, Številka:
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Crude classifications even exist for well-established, essential treatments for mental health disorders. The digital divide Two articles shed light on the complex interaction between the digital ...space and mental health. ...as we head into the winter months and towards the festive period, Kaleidoscope (pp. 573–574) asks how to measure sunshine and value compassion in people.
H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as time machine, war ...of the worlds, and atomic bomb, exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity's place in the universe. Wells was a public intellectual with a worldwide readership. He met with world leaders, including Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, and Churchill, and his books were international best-sellers. Yet critics and scholars have largely forgotten his accomplishments or relegated them to genre fiction, overlooking their breadth and diversity.In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wells's work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernists. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a pressing place in public life, and his works reached a wide range of readers. While recognizing Wells's limitations, Cole offers a new account of his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought. She illuminates how Wells embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. An ambitious rethinking of Wells as both writer and thinker, Inventing Tomorrow suggests that he offers a timely model for literature's moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.
How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War ...an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars, journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction writers invested the "Anglo-Saxons" with extraordinary power. The most ambitious hailed them as a people destined to bring peace and justice to the earth. More modest visions still imagined them as likely to shape the twentieth century. Dreamworlds of Race explores this remarkable moment in the intellectual history of racial domination, political utopianism, and world order.Focusing on a quartet of extraordinary figures—Andrew Carnegie, W. T. Stead, Cecil J. Rhodes, and H. G. Wells—Duncan Bell shows how unionists on both sides of the Atlantic reimagined citizenship, empire, patriotism, race, war, and peace in their quest to secure global supremacy. Yet even as they dreamt of an Anglo-dominated world, the unionists disagreed over the meaning of race, the legitimacy of imperialism, the nature of political belonging, and the ultimate form and purpose of unification. The racial dreamworld was an object of competing claims and fantasies. Exploring speculative fiction as well as more conventional forms of political writing, Bell reads unionist arguments as expressions of the utopianism circulating through fin-de-siècle Anglo-American culture, and juxtaposes them with pan-Africanist critiques of racial domination and late twentieth-century fictional narratives of Anglo-American empire.Tracing how intellectual elites promoted an ambitious project of political and racial unification between Britain and the United States, Dreamworlds of Race analyzes ideas of empire and world order that reverberate to this day.
the hassle of housework Huws, Ursula
Feminist review,
11/2019, Letnik:
123, Številka:
123
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This article revisits materialist second-wave feminist debates about domestic labour in the context of digitalisation. Using a differentiated typology of labour, it looks at how the tasks involved in ...housework have undergone dramatic changes through commodification, decommodification and recommodification without fundamentally altering the gender division of labour in social reproduction, drawing on recent research on the use of online platforms to deliver social reproductive labour via the market in a context in which reproductive labour sits at the centre of an intense time squeeze. It reflects on the implications of the commodification of domestic labour for feminist strategy. The author points to the inadequacy in this context of traditional feminist strategies—for the socialisation of domestic labour through public services, wages for housework or labour-saving through technological solutions—concluding that new strategies are needed that address the underlying social relations that perpetuate unequal divisions of labour in contemporary capitalism.
Critics have long speculated and disagreed over the identity of the anonymous Time Traveller in H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. Martin T. Willis argues that Thomas Edison was the most likely ...inspiration, but also admits that there is no general consensus as to the Time Traveller's identity.1 Willis identifies three schools of thought, as it were, "those who see the Time Traveller as a poor example of the late Victorian scientist, those who view him as a scientific Everyman, and those who find him a reflection either of Wells himself or of some mythic precedent". There is no doubt that Wells' iconic novella grew out of a rich panoply of sources. Here, Mebius presents some textual evidence, drawing primarily on Wells' correspondence between the years of writing and publication of The Chronic Argonauts and The Time Machine.
Abstract This article presents an approach to the short story "The Aleph" (1945) by Jorge Luis Borges based on the parallel universes subject from two perspectives, the mathematical concept of ...transfinite, and the everyday life observation. Following Max Tegmark's hierarchy of the multiverse, it is set out to extend its philosophical content by defining how "The Aleph" argues the idea of the multiverse. On the one hand, this short story is capable of reflecting the motley spatiotemporal state of other simultaneous coexisting universes and, on the other hand, it can compress all its complexity into the simplest figure for its representation, the point. Borges (2013) mismo anotó en el "Epílogo" de El Aleph que "las piezas de este libro corresponden al género fantástico" (p. 345); sin embargo, admitió también que dos de los cuentos, "El Zahir" (1949) y "El Aleph" (1945), se vieron influenciados por "El huevo de cristal" (The Crystal Egg,1897) de H. G. Wells, un cuento considerado por los críticos como perteneciente al género de la ciencia ficción.
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