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Novel politics : democratic imaginations in nineteenth-century fiction / Isobel Armstrong

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Armstrong, Isobel
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource (x, 287 pages)
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Contents
I. DEMOCRATIC IMAGINARIES -- 1. Genealogies -- Introduction -- Codifying the Arboreal Family -- Felix Holt -- 2. Illegitimacy: Genealogy Out of Place -- Illegitimacy and the Biopolitics of the Non-subject -- Anthropology of the Family, Illegitimacy Laws -- Reimagining the Category of the Human -- Mary Shelley and Darwin -- 3. `The Republic of my Imagination': Democratic Imaginations and Dialogic Print Culture -- Symptoms of History -- Political Polarities of Print Culture -- De Tocqueville: Democracy in America -- Hegel: The Philosophy of Right -- II. POETICS FOR A DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION -- 4. `Passionate Thinking': Four Strategies for Reading -- Four Principles of Democratic Reading -- Case Study of the Aesthetic: The Doll's Dressmaker -- 5. Reading for Democratic Imaginations: Inquiry, Form, and Illegitimate Mothers -- Inquiry as Form -- Illegitimate Mothers: The Heart of Midlothian -- Illegitimate Mothers: Ruth -- Illegitimate Mothers: Esther Waters -- 6. Reading for Democratic Imaginations: Inquiry, Form, and Illegitimate Children -- Peripeteia -- Illegitimate Children: Emma -- Illegitimate Children: No Name -- Illegitimate Children: Daniel Deronda -- Master and Slave and the Politics of Recognition -- Philosophical Peripeteia -- 7. Absolutely Destitute -- Case Study 1 Spatial Politics of Dispossession: The Heath -- Emma, Jane Eyre, Ruth, No Name -- Case Study 2 Spatial Politics of Dispossession: The Water's Edge -- Ruth, No Name, Daniel Deronda, Esther Waters -- 8. Aesthetic: Representation -- Print Culture, Simulacra, and the Politics of Representation -- Political Landscapes Before and After the Photograph -- Leaf Prints and Labour -- 9. Aesthetic and Bodies: Singing, Acting, Voicing Freedoms -- Ballads -- Acting and Deconstruction -- Music and Mythopoesis.
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."--Jacket
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9780191835537 (electronic bk.)
0191835536 (electronic bk.)
9780192512444 (electronic bk.)
0192512447 (electronic bk.)
9780198793724 (print)
0198793723 (print)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.
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