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

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

Author/creator	Collings, David, 1959-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2009.
Description	332 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	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.

Series	Bucknell 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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.
LCCN	2008021939
ISBN	0838757200 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780838757208 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR 448.P6 C65 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold