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Communities in literature. --- Community life in literature. --- Friel, Brian.

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Community life in literature --- English poetry --- Landscapes in literature --- Nature in literature --- History and criticism

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The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity. In a period of vast population increase in Britain, literary form imagined and licensed new ways of being with, and getting away from, other people. The generically diverse works that McWeeny calls "the literature of social density" illuminate surprising investments in ephemeral communities, anonymity, and social distance in the age of Victorian sympathy. With chapters on Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James, The Comfort of Strangers discovers a species of Victorian sociality not imagined under J.S. Mill's description in On Liberty of society as a crowd impinging upon the individual: one attuned to the relational possibilities offered by the impersonal intimacy of life among those unknown and the power of weak social ties.

Social change in literature --- Strangers in literature. --- Community life in literature --- Social psychology in literature

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Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives. The leading scholars in the field examine work in the novel, poetry, and drama, by key Scottish authors such as MacDiarmid, Kelman, and Galloway, as well as less well known writers. This includes postmodern and postcolonial readings, analysis of writing by gay and Gaelic authors, alongside theorists of community such as Nancy, Bauman, Delanty, Cohen, Blanchot, and Anderson. This book will unsettle and yet broaden traditional conceptions of community in Scotland and Scottish literature, suggesting a more plural idea of what community might be.

English literature --- Scottish literature --- Community life in literature. --- Communities in literature. --- Society in literature. --- Community in literature --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism.

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American literature --- Community life in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Mexican Americans --- Mexican American authors --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life