Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930

"Anticipatory Materialisms is a timely interdisciplinary collection that draws together ethics, politics and poetics to reimagine and interrogate human precedence in the material world. It presents both a profound and provocative engagement with literature and philosophy to assert the general interdependence of all matter in the natural world." --Lesa Scholl, author of Hunger Movements in Early Victorian Literature Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature that pre-empts the recent philosophical 'turn to materiality and affect. Critical volumes that approach literature via the prism of new materialism are in the ascendence. This collection stakes a different claim: by engaging with neglected theories of materiality in literary and philosophical works that antedate the twentyfirst century 'turn to new materialism and theories of affect, the project aims to establish a dialogue between recent and earlier conceptualisations of people-world rel)materiality of Listening -- Rebecca Spence -- 10. Praying Kin: Christina Rossetti and the Unity of Things -- Emma Mason -- Part III Modern Materialisms -- 11. Making Human Homes: Willa Cather on People