British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essay from 1701 to 2021

Introduction: A New Subgenre of the Essay

Part I When Essays and Things Meet

Chapter 1 The Essay's Democratic Potential

Chapter 2 Things and How They Appear to Us

Chapter 3 The Thing-Essay and Its Three Modes

Part II Between Thing Culture and Commodity Culture: A History of British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essays

Chapter 4 From Semantics to Sentimentality: Thing-Essays in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 5 Thing-Essays during Romanticism

Chapter 6 From Thing Culture to Commodity Culture: Victorian Thing-Essays

Chapter 7 "An Indian Summer": The Democratisation of Thing-Essays in the Interwar Period

Chapter 8 "Things Have a Way of Insinuating Themselves into All Human Lives": Thing-Essays from the Post-War-Period until Today

Coda: Things to Come

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• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Teorias literárias
• História inglesa e irlandesa
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800

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