Eccentricity Culture from the Margins

• Main Author: Emig, Rainer (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) 2023
• Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; eccentricity; culture; margins; centre; outsider; character; integration; flexibility; Early Modern Age; Romanticism; Victorianism; Modern Age; Postmodernity; melancholy; nostalgia; anecdote; identity; power; Diogenes; Theophrastus
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Eccentricity is a stereotype of Englishness. Yet despite its popularity, it has not merited much academic investigation. The present study offers a theoretically grounded overview of the emergence, structures and artistic productions resulting from eccentricity. It starts with its prehistory in Anti...