The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-century British Fiction - 9780230103542
Un libro in lingua di Scarlet Bowen edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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"Popular Legacies: The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction breaks new ground in the history of the eighteenth-century British novel by revealing the persistent influence of popular culture and of an older, patrician model of social relations--what Bowen terms "customary culture"--on novelistic representation as well as on the British imagination as a whole. Resisting a teleological literary history that views the novel's rise as one of increasing refinement and politeness, Bowen draws from a variety of popular sources, such as the criminal broadside, ballad, graphic prints and pantomimes to foreground the eighteenth-century novel's cultural and social hybridity. Popular Legacies further argues that representations of popular and laboring culture serve in the eighteenth-century novel as repositories of traditional social values, reflecting an older, two-part patrician-plebeian social order that authors such as Defoe, Richardson, Smollett and Godwin strategically mobilize in order bothto impede and make palatable Britain's transition to a modern, capitalist and imperial state"--Provided by publisher.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-century British Fiction
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Scarlet Bowen
- Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
- Collana: Palgrave Macmillan (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Agosto '10
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : English fiction 18th century History and criticism Popular culture in literature Manners and customs in literature
- Pagine: 223
- ISBN-10: 0230103545
- EAN-13: 9780230103542