Novel politics : democratic imaginations in nineteenth-century fiction /
"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 o...
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Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| ISBN: | 9780191835537 0191835536 9780192512444 0192512447 |
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Table of 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.