What Literature Knows: Forays Into Literary Knowledge Production

Contributions to English 2 Contributions to English and American Literary Studies 2 and American Literary Studies 2 Antje Kley / Kai Merten (eds.) Antje Kley / Kai Merten (eds.) Kai Merten (eds.) Merten Kai / What Literature Knows This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged What Literature Knows historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and Antje Kley US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to Forays into Literary Knowledge Production material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss literature as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own right, which deploys narrative and poetic means of exploration to establish an independent and sometimes dissident archive. The worlds that imaginary texts project are shown to open up alternative perspectives to be reckoned with in the academic articulation and public discussion of issues in economics and the sciences, identity formation and wellbeing, legal rationale and political decision-making. What Literature Knows The Editors Antje Kley is professor of American Literary Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her research interests focus on aesthetic forms and cultural functions of narrative, both autobiographical and fictional, in changing media environments between the eighteenth century and the present. Kai Merten is professor of British Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His research focuses on contemporary poetry in English, Romantic culture in Britain as well as on questions of mediality in British literature and Postcolonial Studies. He is also the founder of the Erfurt Network on New Materialism. ISBN 978-3-631-75014-8 CEALS 002_275014_Kley_SG_A5HC 151x214.indd 1 19.05.18 01:10 Contributions to English 2 Contributions to English and American Literary Studies 2 and American Literary Studies 2 Antje Kley / Kai Merten (eds.) Antje Kley / Kai Merten (eds.) What Literature Knows This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged What Literature Knows historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and (eds.) Merten Kai / Antje Kley US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to Forays into Literary Knowledge Production material and social forms as well as representation. The authors discuss literature as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own right, which deploys narrative and poetic means of exploration to establish an independent and sometimes dissident archive. The worlds that imaginary texts project are shown to open up alternative perspectives to be reckoned with in the academic articulation and public discussion of issues in economics and the sciences, identity formation and wellbeing, legal rationale and political decision-making. What Literature Knows The Editors Antje Kley is professor of American Literary Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her research interests focus on aesthetic forms and cultural functions of narrative, both autobiographical and fictional, in changing media environments between the eighteenth century and the present. Kai Merten is professor of British Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His research focuses on contemporary poetry in English, Romantic culture in Britain as well as on questions of mediality in British literature and Postcolonial Studies. He is also the founder of the Erfurt Network on New Materialism. CEALS 002_275014_Kley_SG_A5HC 151x214.indd 1 19.05.18 01:10 What Literature Knows CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES Edited by Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland, Julika Griem, Andrew S. Gross and Antje Kley Editorial board: Martine W. Brownley (Emory University, Atlanta) Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex, Brighton) Heinz Ickstadt (Free University of Berlin) David James (Queen Mary University of London) Maurice S. Lee (Boston University) Laura Marcus (University of Oxford) Marek Pary (University of Warsaw) Gill Plain (University of St. Andrews) Andrew Sandersż (Durham University) Hans Ulrich Seeber (University of Stuttgart) Vol. 2 Antje Kley / Kai Merten (eds.) What Literature Knows Forays into Literary Knowledge Production Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Die vorliegende Publikation wurde durch den Universitätsbund der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg gefördert. Cover Image: © AndrewSt/Shutterstock.com Printed by CPI books GmbH, Leck ISSN 2366-5068 ISBN 978-3-631-75014-8 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-631-75786-4 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-75787-1 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-75788-8 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b14220 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 unported license. 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