Overview
- Studies literature across a range of time periods, genres, national literatures
- Considers travel, mobility, movement in and within spaces, and political positions through a spatial framework
- Argues for viewing literature as actionable for social change and resistance
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Mobility
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Spatiality
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Radical Positions
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Conclusion
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Christian Beck is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Florida, USA. He has published on a wide array of topics ranging from medieval English literature to graffiti and hacktivism. He recently published Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism (2019) and is currently working on his next monograph, The Figure of the Vigilante: Concepts for Political and Social Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse
Editors: Christian Beck
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83477-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83476-0Published: 12 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83479-1Published: 13 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83477-7Published: 11 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Literature, general, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Political Sociology