CONTEXT IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Ladegaard, Jakob & Nielsen, Jakob Gaardbo, (editors)

ISBN 10: 1787356256 / ISBN 13: 9781787356252

Published by UCL Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CONTEXT IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787356256
• ISBN 13: 9781787356252
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today.

About the Authors

Jakob Ladegaard is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, Aarhus University. He is a literary scholar who also occasionally writes about cinema. His research is primarily concerned with the relations between literature, politics and economy. He currently heads the research project, 'Unearned Wealth - A Literary History of Inheritance, 1600-2015', funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research. The project uses digital methods to study English and French literary representations of inheritance.

Jakob Gaardbo Nielsen is a PhD student at the Department of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. His PhD project is entitled ‘Dirty Money and Indifferent Writing: A Comparative History of Finance in English and French Literature, 1797-1895’. He has published on Anthony Trollope and nineteenth-century British it-narratives, and is currently co-editing a special issue of Victorian Review on the topic of 'Fraud and Forgery'.