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Monstrous society : reciprocity, discipline, and the political uncanny, c. 1780-1848
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- Creator
- David Collings
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 332 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780838757208, 0838757200
- OCLC
- ocn228744333
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index.
- Reversibility and the crowd in early modern England -- The monstrous crowds and mysterious incorporations of Edmund Burke -- Society without reciprocity: the auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham -- The ghost of revolution: the politics of the uncanny in The monk -- Discipline of disaster: the cancellation of reciprocity in T. R. Malthus -- Monstrous "man": impasses of social mastery in Frankenstein -- The politics of reciprocity: transformations of counterpower at the end of early modern England
Subjects
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 -- Political and social views.
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 -- Political and social views.
- Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834 -- Political and social views.
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century.
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and history -- Great Britain.