How Long to Read The Afterlife of Enclosure

How Long Does it Take to Read The Afterlife of Enclosure?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 58 minutes to read The Afterlife of Enclosure by Carolyn J. Lesjak

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands, labor, and basic concepts of public life leading into the nineteenth century. The Afterlife of Enclosure examines three canonical British writers—Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy—as narrators of this history, the long duration and diffuse effects of which required new literary forms to capture the lived experience of enclosure and its aftermath. This study boldly reconceives the realist novel, not as an outdated artifact, but as witness to the material and environmental dispossession of enclosure—and bearer of utopian energies. These writers reinvented a commons committed to the collective nature of the social world. Illuminating the common at the heart of the novel—from common characters to commonplace events—Carolyn Lesjak reveals an experimental figuration of the lost commons, once a defining feature of the British landscape and political imaginary. In the face of privatization, climate change, new enclosures, and the other forms of slow violence unfolding globally today, this book looks back to a literature of historical trauma and locates within it a radical path forward.

How long is The Afterlife of Enclosure?

The Afterlife of Enclosure by Carolyn J. Lesjak is 294 pages long, and a total of 74,676 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Afterlife of Enclosure Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 48 minutes to read The Afterlife of Enclosure aloud.

What Reading Level is The Afterlife of Enclosure?

The Afterlife of Enclosure is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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