Sean Silver
University of California, Los Angeles
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Nineteenth-Century Literature | 2018
Sean Silver
Abstract:What do the authors of this collection mean when they use the word “material”? In this afterword, I disentangle two distinct meanings which have found their way into the ECF special issue “Material Fictions,” and which speak to two traditions of material thinking in academic discourse. The first, associated with “material” as an adjective, I call physicalist, tracing debts to philosophical materialisms, including Marxist historical materialism. The second, associated with “materials” in the plural, I call alchemical, which names an ongoing interest in the properties of physical media. Both of these traditions are with us still, but scholars of the eighteenth century are suited to weigh in because the first century of the modern era was importantly invested in each. I conclude with a few thoughts on how these traditions might be knitted together, citing attempts in this collection towards exactly this aim.
Nineteenth-Century Literature | 2009
Sean Silver
Archive | 2015
Sean Silver
The Eighteenth Century | 2008
Sean Silver
Criticism | 2011
Sean Silver
Nineteenth-Century Literature | 2018
Sean Silver
Nineteenth-Century Literature | 2017
Sean Silver
The Eighteenth Century | 2016
Christina Lupton; Sean Silver; Adam Sneed
The Eighteenth Century | 2016
Sean Silver
Archive | 2015
Sean Silver
