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ECCENTRICITY - RAINER EMIG GEBUNDEN

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 Antiquity  the Middle Ages  and the Renaissance before pinpointing its emergence
in the seventeenth century. From then onwards it serves to negotiate cultural dissent and make
it productive. What goes hand in hand with eccentricity is the individual  not as essentially
given  but as relational. In the same way that eccentricity has textual and intertextual
origins  eccentrics  despite their seeming singularity  form patterns. These can be used as
cultural 'fertiliser' or as façades in the case of present-day British politicians. The study
offers a re-reading of English Literature and Culture from the margins as well as theoretical
outlooks in the directions of Gender and Postcolonial Studies.

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