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Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction engages urgently with wealth, testing current assumptions of inequality in order to push beyond reductive contemporary readings of the gaping abyss between rich and poor. Shifting away from longstanding debates in postcolonial criticism focused on poverty and abjection, the book marshals fresh perspectives on material, spiritual, and cultural prosperity as found in the literatures of formerly colonized spaces. The chapters ‘follow the money’ to illuminate postcolonial fiction’s awareness of the ambiguities of ‘wealth’, acquired under colonial capitalism and transmuted in contemporary neoliberalism. They weigh idealistic projections of individual and collective wellbeing against the stark realities of capital accumulation and excessive consumption. They remain alert to the polysemy suggested by “Uncommon Wealths,” both registering the imperial economic urge to ensure common wealth and referencing the unconventional or non-Western, the unusual, even fictitious and contrasting privately coveted and exclusively owned wealth with visions of a shared good. Arranged into four sections centred on aesthetics, injustice, indigeneity, and cultural location, the individual chapters show how writers of postcolonial fiction, including Aravind Adiga, Amit Chau-dhuri, Anita Desai, Patricia Grace, Mohsin Hamid, Stanley Gazemba, Tomson Highway, Lebogang Matseke, Zakes Mda, Michael Ondaatje, Kim Scott, and Alexis Wright, employ prosperity and affluence as a lens through which to re-examine issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and family, the cultural value of heritage, land, and social cohesion, and such conflicting imperatives as economic growth, individual fulfilment, social and environmental responsibility, and just distribution. CONTRIBUTORS Francesco Cattani, Sheila Collingwood–Whittick, Paola Della Valle, Sneja Gunew, Melissa Kennedy, Neil Lazarus, John McLeod, Eva–Maria Müller, Helga Ramsey–Kurz, Geoff Rodoreda, Sandhya Shetty, Cheryl Stobie, Helen Tiffin, Alex Nelungo Wanjala, David Waterman

Postcolonialism in literature --- Wealth in literature

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Death in literature. --- Youth in literature. --- Virgil.

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Seit der Finanzkrise von 2008 gibt es eine öffentliche Diskussion über die Bedeutung der Schulden für das menschliche Leben und Zusammenleben. Der verschuldete Mensch lebt im Spannungsfeld von ökonomischen Schulden und moralischer Schuld. Im Lauf der Zeit und unter dem Druck der Verhältnisse hat er die verhängnisvolle Lektion gelernt, sich für seine Schulden schuldig zu fühlen. Das hat auch in der Literaturgeschichte Spuren hinterlassen. In Werken von Shakespeare und Lessing, Keller und Flaubert, Nietzsche und Dostojewskij, von Ibsen, Brecht oder Dürrenmatt erhält das Leben in und mit Schulden individuelle Kontur. Mit Blick auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen unterschiedlicher literarischer Darstellungsformen zeigen sich Handlungsspielräume, die sich dem verschuldeten Menschen trotz oder gerade wegen der ungesicherten Verhältnisbestimmung von Schulden, Schuld und Schuldigkeit eröffnen.

Debt in literature. --- Guilt in literature.

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Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.

Medicine in literature --- Diseases in literature

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This monograph examines how Polish authors writing in the first half of the nineteenth century described these European nations which in their opinion played a significant role in the history of Europe through the past centuries. The nineteenth century authors were convinced that in each of the consecutive historical epochs, typically it was one nation that due to different circumstances acquired special importance and directed a general development. Such prominent communities, via a number of missions entrusted upon them, became the "keepers of the history," playing different functions that often overlapped: they were defenders of freedom, promoters of art and civilization, leaders of economic changes, or initiators of intellectual growth. W monografii zanalizowano wyobrażenia narodów europejskich, które w opinii polskich autorów piszących w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku odegrały znaczącą rolę w dziejach Europy na przestrzeni wieków. Zgodnie z ówczesnym przekonaniem w następujących po sobie epokach historycznych najczęściej jeden naród pod wpływem różnych okoliczności nabierał szczególnego znaczenia, wyznaczając kierunek ogólnemu rozwojowi. Wspólnoty, wypełniając powierzone im misje, stawały się "piastunami dziejów", pełniącymi różnorodne, czasem nawarstwiające się funkcje: obrońców wolności, krzewicieli sztuk, cywilizatorów, przewodników ekonomicznych zmian czy inicjatorów umysłowych przeobrażeń.

Romanticism --- Europe --- In literature.