British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830

$103.00

SKU: 9780521773294
Author: Burgess, Miranda J
Publication Date: 10/26/2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Media: Book
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Description

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.