Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850

ISBN-13: 9781138542136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Richard Adelman; Catherine Packham

Opis

Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity.

 

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Dr Richard Adelman is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. He received his PhD in English from the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Freiburg. He is the author of Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Idleness & Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), as well as of a number of essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Dr. Catherine Packham holds a PhD in English Literature from University of Cambridge (2002). Since 2013 she has been Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, and is also Head of English Literature there. She is author of Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), as well as many articles on eighteenth-century literature, philosophy and political economy. Her current monograph project, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2012-13, is ‘Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy’.