The Comfort of Strangers: Social Life and Literary Form by Gage McWeeny
By Gage McWeeny
Taking up "the literature of social density," Gage McWeeny engages with various generically various works from the age of Victorian sympathy to light up fantastic investments in ephemeral family members, anonymity, and social distance. existence amidst strangers on city streets and markets produced new social stories, either desirable and fearsome, and McWeeny indicates how realist literary shape is remade by way of the relational percentages provided via the impersonal intimacy of lifestyles between these unknown and the ability of susceptible social ties. analyzing works by way of Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James, he discovers a species of Victorian sociality now not imagined less than J.S. Mill's description in On Liberty of society as a crowd impinging upon the person. as a substitute, McWeeny mines nineteenth-century literature's sociological mind's eye to bare a collection of works diverted by means of and into intensities situated in strangers and the trendy sorts of sociality they emblematize.
Treating heavily the choice for the various over the few, the impersonal intimacy of strangers over those who find themselves buddies and pals, The convenience of Strangers indicates how literature and sociology jointly produced smooth understandings of the social, establishing up canonical works of the 19th century to a number of odd, new meanings.
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