Corporate Romanticism : Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel / Daniel M. Stout.
2016
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Author
Title
Corporate Romanticism : Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel / Daniel M. Stout.
Imprint
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Description
1 online resource (264 p.)
Series
Lit z.
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Personification and Its Discontents
1. The Pursuit of Guilty Things
2. The One and the Manor
3. Castes of Exception
4. Nothing Personal
5. Not World Enough
Epilogue: Everything Counts (Frankenstein)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Contents
Introduction: Personification and Its Discontents
1. The Pursuit of Guilty Things
2. The One and the Manor
3. Castes of Exception
4. Nothing Personal
5. Not World Enough
Epilogue: Everything Counts (Frankenstein)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Summary
Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments-the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action-undermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism's ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action.Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons.
Language Note
In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Language
English
ISBN
9780823272266
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