Corporate Romanticism: Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel

by Daniel M. Stout

Book Overview

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. Reading works by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823272249
• ISBN13: 9780823272242
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"