Gutenberg Open Science: Eccentricity : culture from the margins

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dc.contributor.author	Emig, Rainer	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-11T07:22:35Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-05-11T07:22:35Z	-
dc.date.issued	2023	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/9087	-
dc.description.abstract	Eccentricity is a stereotype of Englishness. Yet despite its popularity, it has not merited much academic investigation. The present study offers a theoretically grounded overview of the emergence, structures and artistic productions resulting from eccentricity. It starts with its prehistory in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance before pinpointing its emergence in the seventeenth century. From then onwards it serves to negotiate cultural dissent and make it productive. What goes hand in hand with eccentricity is the individual, not as essentially given, but as relational. In the same way that eccentricity has textual and intertextual origins, eccentrics, despite their seeming singularity, form patterns. These can be used as cultural ‘fertiliser’ or as façades in the case of present-day British politicians. The study offers a re-reading of English Literature and Culture from the margins as well as theoretical outlooks in the directions of Gender and Postcolonial Studies.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	390 Bräuche	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	390 Customs	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	420 Englisch	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	420 English	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	800 Literatur	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	800 Literature and rhetoric	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	820 Englische Literatur	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	820 English and Old English literatures	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	900 Geschichte	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	900 Geography and history	en_GB
dc.title	Eccentricity : culture from the margins	en_GB
dc.type	Monographie	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9070	-
jgu.type.dinitype	book	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.description.extent	288 Seiten	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie	de
jgu.organisation.number	7920	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.publisher.year	2023	-
jgu.publisher.name	wbg Academic in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg)	de
jgu.publisher.place	Darmstadt	de
jgu.publisher.isbn	978-3-534-45028-2	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	390	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	420	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	800	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	820	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	900	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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