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Monstrous Society
David Collings
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Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
Monstrous Society argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power was divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebeians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T.R. Malthus attempted to discipline the social body and make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persisted, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. This response wis writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and ... Read more
Monstrous Society argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power was divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebeians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T.R. Malthus attempted to discipline the social body and make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persisted, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. This response wis writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483154
SKU
V9781611483154
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About David Collings
David Collings is professor of English at Bowdoin College.
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