British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740–1830 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 43)

Brand: Cambridge University Press

Author: Burgess, Miranda J.

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 324

EAN: 9780521023337

Release Date: 24-11-2005

Languages: English

Binding: paperback

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.9 inches

Details: In British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, Miranda Burgess examines what Romantic-period writers called "romance." Reading a broad range of fictional and nonfictional works published between 1740 and 1830, Burgess places authors such as Richardson, Scott, Austen and Wollstonecraft in a new economic, social, and cultural context. She argues that the romance held a key role in remaking the national order of a Britain dependent on ideologies of human nature for justification of its social, economic, and political systems.