British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740–1830

ISBN-13: 9780521773294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 324 str.

Vancouve Miranda J. Burgess (University of British Columbia

Opis

In British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, Miranda Burgess examines what Romantic-period writers called "romance." Reading a broad range of fictional and nonfictional works published between 1740 and 1830, Burgess places authors such as Richardson, Scott, Austen and Wollstonecraft in a new economic, social, and cultural context. She argues that the romance held a key role in remaking the national order of a Britain dependent on ideologies of human nature for justification of its social, economic, and political systems.

Recenzje

"[It] does provide a substantive and valuable expansion to our understanding of the ways in which romance variously intersected with shifting contemporary political discourses." Nineteenth-Century Literature

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: romantic economies; 1. Marketing agreement: Richardson's romance of consensus; 2. 'Summoned into the machine': Burney's genres, Sheridan's sentiment, and conservative critique; 3. Wollstonecraft and the revolution of economic history; 4. Romance at home: Austen, Radcliffe, and the circulation of Britishness; 5. Scott, Hazlitt and the ends of legitimacy; Epilogue: Sensibility, genre and the cultural marketplace; Notes.