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Author:

Collings, David, 1959-

Title:

Monstrous society : reciprocity, discipline, and the political uncanny, c. 1780-1848 / David Collings.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

332 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.
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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

ISBN:

0838757200 (alk. paper)
9780838757208 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)228744333

LCCN:

2008021939

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)