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This collection of essays examines the representation of Subject cultures in the English novel from the 18th to the 21st century. It draws upon the work of Andreas Reckwitz and connects his sociological theories with other approaches to Subjectivity. This focus is path-breaking because there exists no comprehensive literary study that discusses Subject cultures and Reckwitz´s concepts. The essays concentrate on points of transition between Subject cultures, and demonstrate that the English novel functions as a key tool in articulating as well as negotiating concepts of modern Subjectivity.

The volume is divided into three parts. The introductory essay offers a critical discussion of how Reckwitz conceptualizes Subject cultures in Western modernity. The second part focuses on tensions between bourgeois and romantic models of Subjectivity. The case studies in this section cover novels by Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Charlotte Bront‰, and Charles Dickens. The third section addresses the transformation of the organisation man and the emergence of creativity as a key paradigm since the 1980s. Here, novels by A.S. Byatt, Andrea Levy, Ian McEwan, J.G. Ballard, and Matthew Reynolds are featured.

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Preface
Part I: Theorising Subject Cultures
Meinhard Winkgens: "Reckwitz´s Theory of Subject Culture in
Western Modernity."
Part II: The Individual between Bourgeois and Romantic
Subject Culture
Maurus Roller: "Samuel Richardson´s Pamela: The
Aristocratic Subject and the Ascendency of the Middle Class
Cultural Order."
Nadine Aldag: "Jane Eyre as an Individual Subject Between
the Bourgeois and the Romantic Subject Culture."
Meinhard Winkgens: "Re-reading David Copperfield as a
Polysemic Imaginative Exploration of Bourgeois Subject Culture
and its Supplementary Romantic Other."
Part III: Creative Transformations of the Organisation Man
Isa Maubach: "Metatheoretical reflections on the creativity
imperative."
Marie-Theres Wieme: "A.S. Byatt´s The Children´s Book."
Sarah Heinz: "Challenging the Organisation Man: Normality
and Normalisation in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel."
Stefan Glomb: "The Hybrid Individual in Ian McEwan´s Chesil
Beach."Nora Kuster: "Bringing down the house: De/Constructing
20th century middle-class Subjectivity in JG Ballard´s High
Rise."
Stella Butter: "Representations of Ideal Homes in English
Culture: Gracious Living and the Creative Self in Matthew
Reynolds´ Designs for a Happy Home."

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This collection of essays examines the representation of subject cultures in the English novel from the 18th to the 21st century. It draws upon the work of Andreas Reckwitz and connects his sociological theories with other approaches to subjectivity. This approach is innovative since to this date no extended study exists that discusses subject cultures and Reckwitzs concepts from a literary studies perspective. The essays concentrate on points of transition between subject cultures and demonstrate that the English novel functions as a key tool in articulating as well as negotiating concepts of modern subjectivity.

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