Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The chapters of this book show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and self-aware participation in contemporary surveillance environments possible, and are consequently necessary for fully realized citizenship in a liberal society.
Author(s): David Rosen, Aaron Santesso
Edition: 1
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF | Full TOC
Pages: 370
Tags: Self In Literature; Privacy In Literature; Citizenship In Literature
Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Panopticism
Surveillance And Literature
1 | The Retreat of Allegory
I | Allegorical Culture
Allegory and Personhood
The Renaissance
II | Imagining Islands: utopian Allegory
Leaving the Island: Prospero and the Divine Right of Kings
Coda: The Rise Of Modern Surveillance And The Afterlife Of Allegory
The Rise of Modern Surveillance
The Afterlife of Allegory: Swift's Negative Theology
2 | The Liberal Panopticon
I | Sentimentalism And Performance
Social Theater
II | Liberal-Contractual Culture
Instrumental Agreements
A Little Theory of Liberalism
III | Observation And The Novel
Leaving the Island: Crusoe's "Genius"
Towards Social Construction: Coercive Surveillance
Against Social Construction: Empathetic Surveillance
Coda: Panoptic Space And Social Reform
3 | Inviolate Personality
I | The Literary Roots Of Privacy Theory
The Right to Privacy
Poetry and Solitude
II | Identification
Solipsism and the City
Privacy and the Masses
The Police
III | Realism And The Subgenres
The Crisis of Representation
Leaving the Island: Democratic Vistas
Into the Genres: The Emergence of the Detective Story
Coda: Cambridge, 1890
4 | The Return of Allegory
Decadence, Social Participation, And The Fate Of Liberalism
I | Social Engineering
Cambridge 1890 Revisited
Habit and Autonomy
II | Paranoid Allegory
Utopia Redux
Paranoia and the Surveillance State
The Morphology of Paranoid Fiction (The Rise of the Spy Novel)
III | Surveillance And The Surgenres
Two Panopticons
Latter- Day Realism and the Better Sort of Spy Novel
5 | Towards a Theory of Liberal Reading
I | Two Kinds Of Autonomy
Chicken Littleism
Contemporary Lockeanism
II | A Taxomony Of Contemporary Surveillance
Systemic Surveillance
A Notional Graph
1 | A man walks into a casino ...
2 | A man walks into a small social gathering ...
3 | Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban get married ...
Surveillance in the State of Nature
III | Timely Aesthetics
A Smaller Account of Postmodernism
Pretrauma and Modernist Incompletion
Liberal Reading
Surveillance Reading
Readerly Surveillance
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1 | The Retreat Of Allegory
Chapter 2 | The Liberal Panopticon
Chapter 3 | Inviolate Personality
Chapter 4 | The Return Of Allegory
Chapter 5 | Towards A Theory Of Liberal Reading
Index
