Corporate Romanticism : : Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel / / Daniel M. Stout.
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 li...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Lit Z
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Other title: | 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 |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780823272266 9783110729023 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780823272266 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Daniel M. Stout. |