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03411aam a2200553 i 4500 001 651249A6DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 200805s2021 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020035328 020 $a 1503627810 020 $a 9781503627819 020 $a 1503615081 020 $a 9781503615083 035 $a (OCoLC)1176326657 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d WVU $d OCLCO $d STF $d OCL $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR878.C635 $b L47 2021 082 00 $a 823/.809357 $2 23 100 1 $a Lesjak, Carolyn, $d 1963- $e author. 245 14 $a The afterlife of enclosure : $b British realism, character, and the commons / $c Carolyn Lesjak. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 241 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The bold challenge at the heart of this study is to renew our understanding of realist literature, not as stale, outdated, or even dead, but as witness to the "slow violence" of material and environmental dispossession and as bearer of radical, utopian energies. The three realist writers who are the focus of this study-Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy-each trace a series of figurations of the common in the wake of the physical or literal commons' destruction, endowing both the historical trauma that was enclosure and the utopian spirit that the commons embodied with an afterlife, one that reveals a radical politics at the heart of these most canonical writers' works"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : realism and the commons -- The persistence of the commons, the persistence of enclosure -- Dickensian types and a culture of the commons -- Eliot, cosmopolitanism, and the commons -- The typical and the tragic in Hardy's geopolitical commons -- Afterword : old and new enclosures 600 10 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Hardy, Thomas, $d 1840-1928 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00028294 600 17 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034497 600 17 $a Hardy, Thomas, $d 1840-1928. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034596 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Commons in literature. 650 0 $a Inclosures in literature. 650 0 $a Working class in literature. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 7 $a Commons in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02025482 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Inclosures in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903575 650 7 $a Realism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 650 7 $a Working class in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180556 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lesjak, Carolyn J. $t Afterlife of enclosure $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. $z 9781503627826 $w (DLC) 2020035329 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023545.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=651249A6DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search