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  1. Corporate Romanticism
    Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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 liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism’s ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action.Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823272266
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    Series: Lit Z
    Subjects: Romanticism; action; character; corporate personhood; industrialism; justice; law; liberalism; the corporation; the novel; LAW / Legal History; English fiction; Individualism in literature; Law and literature; Literature and society; Modernism (Literature); Romanticism
    Scope: 1 online resource (264 pages)
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  2. Corporate Romanticism
    Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    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 liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism’s ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action.Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
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    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823272266
    Other identifier:
    Series: Lit Z
    Subjects: Romanticism; action; character; corporate personhood; industrialism; justice; law; liberalism; the corporation; the novel; LAW / Legal History; English fiction; Individualism in literature; Law and literature; Literature and society; Modernism (Literature); Romanticism
    Scope: 1 online resource (264 pages)
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)