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Corporate Romanticism : Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stout, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Lit z.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : personification and its discontents
  • 1. The pursuit of guilty things : corporate actors, collective actions, and romantic abstraction
  • 2. The one and the manor : on being, doing, and deserving in Mansfield Park
  • 3. Castes of exception : tradition and the public sphere in The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner
  • 4. Nothing personal : the decapitations of character in A tale of two cities
  • 5. Not world enough : easement, externality, and the edges of justice (Caleb Williams)
  • Epilogue : everything counts (Frankenstein).