{"product_id":"9783031721694","title":"Speculative Affect Objects and Emotions","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePalgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSpeculative Affect\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eObjects and Emotions\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCharmaine Eddy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpeculative Affect: Objects and Emotions\u003c\/em\u003e is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and cultural production. The word “speculative” in the title references recent philosophical and cultural work in the “speculative turn,” a philosophical field that includes speculative realism, new materialisms, “thing” theory, or object-oriented ontology, where the object is analyzed apart from human consciousness and human use-value. By linking this return to an ontological object realism beyond human consciousness with affect theory’s reimagining of corporeality by exploring attachments, bodily sensations, autonomic responses, and emotions as embodied forces beyond conscious knowing, this work addresses the last frontier in radically reconfiguring the status of human life – the division and hierarchy between so-called inert material and the apparent “superiority” of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharmaine Eddy\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches modern American literature, Black literary studies, and literary and cultural theory. She has published several articles on new materialisms and hoarding, including “The Art of Consumption: Capitalist Excess and Individual Psychosis in \u003cem\u003eHoarder\u003c\/em\u003es” in \u003cem\u003eCanadian Review of American Studies\u003c\/em\u003e and “Trash and Aesthetics in the Hoard” in \u003cem\u003eNANO: New American Notes Online.\u003c\/em\u003e 'She also has a forthcoming monograph on William Faulkner, \u003cem\u003eStates of Racial Abjection: Writing the Liminal South in William Faulkner’s Later Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e accepted for publication by the University of Mississippi Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 March 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783031721694\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e254\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51032023629964,"sku":"9783031721694","price":161.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031721694.jpg?v=1782484351","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031721694","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}