In and out : eccentricity in Britain / edited by Sophie Aymes-Stokes and Lauren Mellet.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 315 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1443839450
- 9781443839457
- Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain
- Eccentrics in literature
- English literature -- History and criticism
- Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Literature & literary studies
- Social & cultural history
- Cultural studies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Rich & Famous
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Eccentrics in literature
- English literature
- Great Britain
- Exzentrizität
- Großbritannien
- 920.041 23
- CT9990 .I53 2012
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The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English "character". It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideolo ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART III; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; PART IV; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS.
English.
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