Novel politics : democratic imaginations in nineteenth-century fiction / Isobel Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Isobel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 287 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Novel Politics' aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and critics making claims for the working-class novel, and systematically under-reads democratic imaginations and social questioning in novels of the period. To undo such readings means evolving a new praxis of critical writing. Rather than addressing the explicitly political and deeply limited accounts of the machinery of franchise and ballot in texts, it is important to create a poetics of the novel that opens up its radical aspects."--Dust jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.

ISBN:

9780198793724

0198793723

OCLC:

952182510