Rancière and Literature

Grace Hellyer Grace Hellyer has a PhD from the University of New South Wales. Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author, previously, of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Todd Solondz (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019), and of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888–1905 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Twentieth-Century Prison Writing: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Rancière and LiteratureJulian Murphet and Grace HellyerSection I: Coordinates1. Fictions of TimeJacques Rancière2. Jacques Rancière in the Forest of Signs: Indiscipline, Figurality and TranslationEric Méchoulan3. Rancière and TragedyOliver Feltham4. Rancière Lost: On John Milton and AestheticsJustin Clemens5. ‘A New Mode of the Existence of Truth’: Rancière and the Beginnings of Modernity 1780–1830Andrew GibsonSection II: Realisms6. The Novelist and Her Poor: Nineteenth-Century Character DynamicsElaine Freedgood 7. ‘Broiled in Hell-fire’: Melville, Rancière and the Heresy of LiterarityGrace Hellyer8. Why Maggie Tulliver Had To Be KilledEmily Steinlight9. The Meaning in the Detail: Literature and the Detritus of the Nineteenth Century in Jacques Rancière and Walter BenjaminAlison RossSection III: Contemporaneities10. Ineluctable Modality of the Sensible: Poverty and Form in UlyssesJulian Murphet11. The Politics of Realism in Rancière and HouellebecqArne De Boever12. Literature, Politics and ActionBert OlivierIndex