Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2020.5

Inside the world of Har­ry Pot­ter: crit­i­cal essays on the books and films
Many schol­ars rec­og­nize the impor­tance of Har­ry Pot­ter as a vehi­cle for dis­cus­sions about society—from race rela­tions and gen­der stud­ies to eco­nom­ic, polit­i­cal, reli­gious and edu­ca­tion­al appli­ca­tions of the texts. This inter­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lec­tion of new essays brings to the fore­front a cri­tique of mod­ern West­ern soci­ety, using Harry’s world as a mir­ror to our own. Cov­er­ing issues sur­round­ing par­ent­ing and fam­i­ly rela­tions, social class, life and death, the link between iden­ti­ty and moral­i­ty and even the risks of time trav­el, this col­lec­tion pro­vides many jump­ing-off points for schol­ars and non­schol­ars alike to spark dis­cus­sions about both Harry’s world and our own.
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The hyper­local in eigh­teenth- and nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry lit­er­ary space
This book exam­ines lit­er­ary rep­re­sen­ta­tions of hyper­local spaces that sub­vert the idea of ground­ed and organ­ic spa­tial iden­ti­ties. Fig­ures such as the pond, the sci­en­tif­ic par­ti­cle, and Wedg­wood creamware often go unno­ticed, but they exem­pli­fy impor­tant shifts in cul­ture and aes­thet­ics in the eigh­teenth and nine­teenth cen­turies. The Hyper­local in Eigh­teenth- and Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Lit­er­ary Space argues that these objects, as well as loca­tions such as alcoves in remote shires, city inns, and moun­tain retreats, were por­trayed by writ­ers in the late eigh­teenth and ear­ly-to-mid nine­teenth cen­turies as gam­bits that chal­lenged cul­tur­al hege­monies. It shows that the hyper­local space or object, though par­tic­u­lar, reach­es beyond itself, afford­ing an elas­tic­i­ty that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broad­er cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance.
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