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03755aam a2200445 i 4500 001 A72B9272E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 170118s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016043659 020 $a 0823272230 020 $a 9780823272235 020 $a 0823272249 020 $a 9780823272242 035 $a (OCoLC)947147157 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ERASA $d VYF $d OCLCF $d IUL $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR868 I615 S86 2017 100 1 $a Stout, Daniel, $e author. 245 10 $a Corporate Romanticism : $b liberalism, justice, and the novel / $c Daniel M. Stout. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Fordham University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 254 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Lit Z 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Personification and its discontents -- The pursuit of guilty things: corporate actors, collective actions, and romantic abstraction -- The one and the manor: on being, doing, and deserving in Mansfield Park -- Castes of exception: tradition and the public sphere in The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner -- Nothing personal: the decapitations of character in A tale of two cities -- Not world enough: easement, externality, and the edges of justice (Caleb Williams) -- Epilogue: Everything counts (Frankenstein). 520 8 $a Innocence you don't have to earn, virtue that you cannot deserve, guilt that never ends, action that never stops, character without innerness, many persons speaking through a single human, a single creature who is also a species, a man who is not himself because he is his double, a man who is neither himself nor his double. These confusions of personhood and action are not exceptions to the law of liberal individualism; they are the confusions that are its only history." 'Corporate Romanticism' offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments - the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action - undermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. 0Reading a set of important Romantic novels - 'Caleb Williams', 'Mansfield Park', 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of Justified Sinner', 'Frankenstein', and 'A Tale of Two Cities' - alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism's ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action. Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, ' Corporate Romanticism' reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x Theory, etc. $x Theory, etc. 650 0 $a Romanticism. 650 0 $a Individualism in literature. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z England. 650 0 $a Law and literature $z England $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y 19th century. 830 0 $a Lit z. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304011102.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171223030630.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A72B9272E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search