Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

by Isobel Armstrong

Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and critics making claims for the working-class novel, and systematically under-reads democratic imaginations and social questioning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198793723
• ISBN13: 9780198793724
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"