Corporate romanticism : liberalism, justice, and the novel / Daniel M. Stout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stout, Daniel M., author.

Series:

Lit z.

Lit Z

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Individualism in literature.

Justice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Corporate Romanticism reads a series of important Romantic novels alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law, politics, and aesthetics in order to show liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 18, 2017).

ISBN:

9780823272259

0823272257