Monstrous society : reciprocity, discipline, and the political uncanny, c. 1780-1848 / David Collings.

Author/creator Collings, David, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoLewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2009.
Description332 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797--Political and social views.
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832--Political and social views.
Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834--Political and social views.
English literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --18th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --19th century.
Literature and history--Great Britain.

SeriesBucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture. ^A436902
Contents Reversibility and the crowd in early modern England -- The monstrous crowds and mysterious incorporations of Edmund Burke -- Society without reciprocity: the auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham -- The ghost of revolution: the politics of the uncanny in The monk -- Discipline of disaster: the cancellation of reciprocity in T. R. Malthus -- Monstrous "man": impasses of social mastery in Frankenstein -- The politics of reciprocity: transformations of counterpower at the end of early modern England.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.
LCCN 2008021939
ISBN0838757200 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780838757208 (alk. paper)

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