Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schmitt, Cannon

Titel

Written on the Body: The Sensational Nation in Matthew Arnold and Wilkie Collins

Ist Teil von

• Alien Nation, 2018, p.107-134

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

De Gruyter eBooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the introduction I considered an especially provocative implication ofImagined Communities, Benedict Anderson’s seminal attempt to rethink the nation and reformulate the grounds of its analysis: the association of the advent of the modern nation with a specific literary genre, the novel in general and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century realist novel in particular.¹ In claiming that nations depend upon a standardized print language and “empty time,” Anderson implicates realist novels in the birth of nationalism, for as generic constructs and as commodities in largely monoglot markets such novels contributed to the development of both. Moreover, they represented within their