Novel politics : democratic imaginations in nineteenth-century fiction / Isobel Armstrong.
| Author/creator |
Armstrong, Isobel |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Description | x, 287 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Literature |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016940533 |
| ISBN | 9780198793724 |
| ISBN | 0198793723 |
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