...Laci Mattison This essay reads Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls (1963) alongside recent theorists of “thingness,” namely, Bill Brown and Jane Bennett. While Bowen’s things intersect with the social terrain, they also simultaneously and paradoxically destabilize that very reality...

... and nonhuman entities. It provides a concrete articulation of human activity’s inextricable linkages to supposedly inanimate phenomena, thus exemplifying ideas found in the work of contemporary thinkers such as Jane Bennett. This is a world in which humans occupy an equivalent ethical plane to these other...

... to the freshness of his critical position and its radical implications for a variety of fields, theorists of “new materialisms” like Jane Bennett have increasingly looked to his work for a thorough criticism of humanist critical practice. Rightly so: Latour’s theoretical work over the last two decades can be read...

... networks of animate and inanimate relations connecting what Jane Bennett has called, in her theorizing of a “vital materialism,” the ontological diversity of actants (2010, xiv). As Bruce Clarke notes, where this applies for example to both Serres’s and Latour’s embrace of cybernetics as the interfacing...

... as a nonorganic process in elegy, and of thinking an elegiac poetics of form. Works Cited Bennett Jane . 2010 . Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Bennett Jane . 2020 . Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman . Durham, NC : Duke...

... of the object world actually preclude the materialist politics of Marxist critique? Can Breu deliver his classically Marxist critiques of political economy in spite of, or because of, his theoretical allegiance to new materialist theories such as those proposed by Jane Bennett, Graham Harman, Levi Bryant, Sarah...

..., and environments across a range of pivotal modernist texts. Placed in dialogue with Derrida and other posthumanist theorists, including Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett and Cary Wolfe, the ethical import of modernism is explored variously in radical critiques and close readings of the experimental...

...” (1916) As the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one; & the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one. Still, if you think of it, what answers do Arnold Bennett or Thackeray, for instance...

... and include Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual, a work I discuss at length later in this essay; Patricia Clough, The Affective Turn; John Protevi, Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic; and Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Bennett’s work has had...

... with a proximate other without the backing of intersubjectivity or of established social form. Focusing on The Voyage Out (1915), “An Unwritten Novel” (1917), and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1924), the essay highlights minor intimacy as an alternative to the given forms both of intimacy itself and of realistic...

..., great patron of the arts and prima donna lawyer John Quinn was right. Well, partly right. In 1921, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap were convicted of publishing “indecent matter”1 in The Little Re­ view—the concluding part of “Nausicaa,” the thirteenth episode of Ul­ ysses, in which...

... a materialist perspective drives Jane Bennett’s (2010) work. Thus, the notion of a material (if not deterministic) relationship between literary objects and the ostensibly nonhuman world continues to play a role in ecocritical literary studies. In linking Ransomian Agrarianism and contemporary ecocriticism...

.... Works cited Beiser Frederick C. 2002 . German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bennett David . 2003 . “ Collage, Individualism and Fascism: The Poetics and Politics of a Modernist Magazine .” In Collage / Montage...

...” (Tyler- Bennett 50); one thinks of Raoul’s statement, “Away we jolted and ratded like three little dice that life had decided to have a fling with” (100).15 The sense of exile inheres in the inaugural loss behind subjectivity whereby one is cut off from access to the loved one and is therefore...

... Glaser. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995. Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, Duke UP: 2010. Brassier, Ray. Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Exitinction. New York: Palgrave, 2007. Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses...

... literature and method, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1924). Contrasting the “Edwardians” (H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and John Galsworthy) with the “Georgians” (E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, and, by implication, herself), Woolf points out the limitations of the former in treating...

... of the labors of a creative human subject. As Andrew Bennett notes, “With its alleged intolerance for the sentimental humanism, the comforting essentialism, of authorship,” postmodernism “is nevertheless—or perhaps therefore—fascinated by, fixated on, author effects and author-figures” (2005, 109...

... in her 1924 essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (110). Fifteen years later, in “A Sketch of the Past,” she returns to this claim, ruminating on middle-class Victorian society’s preoccupation with proper manners and the impact of this preoccupation on her own behavior: About 4—4...

... writ­ ers, including Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, and Djuna Barnes. But within this context, one subgroup of American women writers has largely es­ caped critical attention. Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Solita Solano, and Kathryn Hulme were all students of expatriate Armenian and self-pro...

... documents a succession of “Junes,” allowing her to transform everyday experience into story, so she yearns to have access to a comparable accounting of the beggar woman’s development. Rather than inventing a story for the beggar woman, however (as she does for Mrs. Brown in “Mr. Bennett...